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Baghdad papers welcome debts write-off, UAE envoy.
Newspaper article from: Aswat al-Iraq (Erbil, Iraq)
; ...published an editorial entitled 'Arab Barmakids' by Editor-in-Chief Abdul Rasoul...people of the United Arab Emirates as Arab Barmakids, Abdul Rasoul said that they were the...and sorrow with the Iraqi people. The Barmakids were a noble Persian family which came...
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The succession to the caliph Musa al-Hadi.(Harun al-Rashid)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ...both he and Kennedy see it, to the Barmakids. (7) In his view, court intrigue...etat pulled off in Baghdad by the Barmakids and al-Khayzuran." (8) Harun--or again as he sees it, the Barmakids--had a provincial power base in...
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The History of al-Tabari, vols. 27, 29, 30, 32, 33.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ...These three volumes do contain some very readable and interesting narratives about major topics, such as the fail of the Barmakids or the institution of the mihna. For the most part, however, they are episodic and disjointed in their chronicling of events...
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Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography: Harun al-Rashid and the Narrative of the [Abbasid.sup.[subset]] Caliphate.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ...the idealized image of the ascetic, ghazi-caliph whose fate is so intricately and tragically bound up with that of the Barmakids "was contrived long after the caliph's death to serve ideals and social interests that prevailed in the later ninth century...
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