Ibn al-Mutazz and Politics: The Question of the Fuūl Qiār

Abstract Scholarship has come full circle in positing a close relationship between the Abbasid prince Ibn al-Mutazz’s writings and his life, especially his political ambitions (he died, in 296/908, in a failed attempt to gain the caliphate). How do his aphorisms, Fuūl Qiār, fit into the picture? The...

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Main Author: Bray, Julia (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2010
In: Oriens
Year: 2010, Volume: 38, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 107-143
Further subjects:B Alī
B al-Rayānī
B translation movement
B aphorisms
B élite ideology
B textual appropriation
B political demeanour
B literary ‘gestures’
B Ibn al-Mu‘tazz
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