BARMAKIDS

bärˈməkĭdzˌ or Barmecidesbärˈməsīdzˌ, Persian-descended religious family from Khorasan. They served as viziers to the Abbasid caliphs in the 8th cent. Khalid ibn Barmak, d. 782?, supported the revolution that brought about Abbasid rule. He was given certain ministerial powers, such as tax collecting and control over the army; later, he was appointed governor of Fars and governor of Tabaristan. Yahya, d. 805, son of Khalid, became secretary to the caliph's son, Harun al-Rashid. Yahya and Harun were imprisoned by the caliph's successor, Musa al-Hadi, who died soon afterward. Harun became caliph and made Yahya chief administrator. Yahya's sons, Jafar, d. 803, and al-Fadl, d. 808, also became administrators during the reign of Harun. Jafar headed various interior departments. Al-Fadl eventually assumed his father's central duties and was appointed governor of Khorasan. However, by 800 the Barmakids' power and status were rapidly declining. Jafar was executed in 803; Yahya and al-Fadl died in prison.

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Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography: Harun Al-Rashid and the Narrative of the Abbasid Caliphate
Book by Tayeb El-Hibri; Cambridge University Press, 1999
Subjects: Harun Al-Rashid--Caliph--Ca. 763-809, Islamic Empire--History--750-1258--Historiography
The misjudged Barmakids Why the Barmakids fell from power is a question that has beguiled historians for...probably remains as much a mystery today as it was a week after the Barmakids were expelled from office. Popular explanations formulated...
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The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night: Rendered into English from the Literal and Complete French Translation of Dr. J.C. Mardrus - Vol. 4
Book by Powys Mathers; Routledge, 1986
Subjects: Arabian Nights, Tales--Arabian Peninsula
...extravagant liberalities of Jafar and the Barmakids, the tale of which became a weariness...said concerning the splendour of the Barmakids: One day I entered al-Rashids apartments...called Kasr al-khuld at Baghdad. The Barmakids dwelt on the other bank of the Tigris...
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Greek Thought, Arabic Culture: The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in Baghdad and Early Abb Asid Society (2nd-4th/8th-10th Centuries)
Book by Dimitri Gutas; Routledge, 1998
...firmly in the hands of such families, the Barmakids and the Nawba ts among them being perhaps...had been attenuated by the fall of the Barmakids in 187/803 and the instability during...of the administrative functions of the Barmakids. For a general overview of the Barmakids...
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The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night
Book by J. C. Mardrus, Powys Mathers; Routledge, 1989
...door and forty of your relatives, the Barmakids, to keep you company. Thus the Khalifah...crucified upon the palace gate, and forty Barmakids crucified upon the palace gate, are...wailing because both Jafar and all the Barmakids were loved for their kindness and generosity...
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History of the Arabs: From the Earliest Times to the Present
Book by Philip K. Hitti; Macmillan, 1951
Subjects: Arabian Peninsula--History, Arabs, Civilization, Arab, Islamic Empire--History
...the empire from 786 to 803. 2 These Barmakids had their palaces in eastern Baghdad...the initiative and munificence of the Barmakids. Al-Fad l is credited with being the...because of him Arab historians regard the Barmakids as the founders of the class designated...
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The Succession to the Caliph Musa Al-Hadi
Journal article by Richard Kimber; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 121, 2001
Subjects: Arabs and Islam--History, Harun al-Rashid--Political activity, Islamic Empire--History
...both he and Kennedy see it, to the Barmakids. (7) In his view, court intrigue...detat 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 Khaqanid Families of the Early Cabbasid Period
Journal article by Matthew S. Gordon; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 121, 2001
Subjects: Baghdad, Iraq--History, Kings and rulers--Iraq
...places Yahya in the company of the Barmakids ur.der Harun al-Rashid. This is...partisans, to link him to the legacy of the Barmakids. 104 Given the fractured politics of...as, for example, in the case of the Barmakids. THE QUESTION OF ANCESTRY The origins...
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Crescentia's Oriental Relatives: the "tale of the Pious Man and His Chaste Wife" in the Arabian Nights and the Sources of Crescentia in near Eastern Narrative Tradition
Journal article by Ulrich Marzolph; Marvels & Tales, Vol. 22, 2008
Subjects: Manuscripts
...Itlidis Ilam alnas fima waqaa li-l-Baramika ma a Boni Abbas ("Information of the People Concerning What Happened to the Barmakids Together with the Abbasids"; Marzolph and van Leeuwen 2: 606-07) and many other works. Al-Saffuris work is within...
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Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography: Harun Al-Rashid and the Narrative of the [Abbasid.Sup.[Subset
Journal article by Paul M. Cobb; Vol. 121, 2001
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography: Harun al-Rashid and the Narrative of the [Abbasid.sup.[subset
...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 caliphs death to serve ideals and social interests that prevailed in the later ninth century...
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The Abna' Al-Dawla: The Definition and Legitimation of Identity in Response to the Fourth Fitna
Journal article by John P. Turner; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 124, 2004
...says that they "constituted something of a sect with a unique status (the most outstanding of whom, were, of course, the Barmakids)." How he extrapolates from this to label them a sect is somewhat baffling. 73. al-Tabari, Tarikh, 3: 498.5...


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The True Caliph of the Arabian Nights: Hugh Kennedy Examines the Life of One of the Most Powerful Men in the World in the Eighth Century
Magazine article by Hugh Kennedy; History Today, Vol. 54, September 2004
Subjects: Abbasid dynasty, 750-1258--6th-10th century AD, Abbasid dynasty, 750-1258--History, Arabian Nights (Folk tale)--History, Caliphs--6th-10th century AD, Caliphs--Behavior, Caliphs--History, Caliphs--Public opinion, Folk literature--6th-10th century AD, Folk literature--History, Folklore--6th-10th century AD, Folklore--History, Iraq--Economic aspects, Iraq--History, Iraq--Political aspects, Iraq--Social aspects, Middle East--Economic aspects, Middle East--History, Middle East--Political aspects, Middle East--Social aspects, al-Rashid, Harun--Behavior, al-Rashid, Harun--History, al-Rashid, Harun--Public opinion
...were to be immensely influential in his life, the Barmakids. The Barmakids hailed from the far east of the Islamic world...when the Abbasids took power from 747 onwards, the Barmakids had proved some of their keenest supporters. The...
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Iraq from Sumer to Saddam
Magazine article; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 27, Spring 2003
Subjects: Baghdad, Iraq--Analysis, Baghdad, Iraq--History, Hussein, Saddam, Nasser, Gamal Abdel, Sinbad
...sumptuous entertainments were laid on by the Barmakids, a family whose name became synonymous...new office of vizier, a position the Barmakids monopolized for three generations, the...of the state and the Quran. Under the Barmakids patronage, elements of Iranian thought...


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encyclopedia articles on: Barmakids  - 4 results

 
 
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Barmakids
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BARMAKIDS bar m kidz or Barmecides bar m sidz , Persian-descended religious family...central duties and was appointed governor of Khorasan. However, by 800 the Barmakids power and status were rapidly declining. Jafar was executed in 803...
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Harun Ar-Rashid
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...The most famous incident of his career was the fall of the Barmakids , a Persian family that had become very powerful under Mahdi...his empire. These grew more frequent after the fall of the Barmakids, who were adroit statesmen. After this Haruns prime minister...
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Barmecides
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BARMECIDES see Barmakids . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Balkh
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...stupas. Conquered by the Arabs in the 8th cent., it became important in the world of Islam as the original home of the Barmakids . Under the Abbasid caliphate its fame as a center of learning earned Balkh the title "mother of cities." The city was...


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