This essay is part of a wider research project aiming to define the components of the élite in power during the first ʿAbbāsid period. Our present purpose is to verify if , and at what extent, the sliding among different public roles must be related with the “arbitraire” of the caliph or rather if it would be reasonable to discern in it some automatisms, some unregulated, although already applied paths. For this purpose, we carried out a survey of the figures who had offices in the administration of the ʿAbbāsid state during the second half of the 2nd/8th century, i.e. the Barmakids and those who evolved with them on the political scenario. In such initial stage, we confined our survey to the figures appearing in the Kitāb al-wuzarā’ wa’l-kuttāb by al-Jahshiyārī (d. 331/942) that is, with the al-Ṣūlī’s one, the most ancient collection of akhbār devoted to the vizirs. We actually think that this work has a historical as well as a symbolic significance. In our opinion the fact of having been produced inside the officials milieu of the 4th/10th century increases its value as a source for the social history of the first ʿAbbāsid period. Facing to the problem of the sliding among different public roles, we tried to fix some criteria for the statistical analysis of this phenomenon, as well as to deduce how this could be used for the study of the social components of the ʿAbbāsid élite.

Stasolla, M.g. (2010). Catégories et fontions dans l’appareil de l’État au temps des Barmécides. AL-MASĀQ, 22(1), 1-25 [10.1080/09503110903549905].

Catégories et fontions dans l’appareil de l’État au temps des Barmécides

STASOLLA, MARIA GIOVANNA
2010-01-01

Abstract

This essay is part of a wider research project aiming to define the components of the élite in power during the first ʿAbbāsid period. Our present purpose is to verify if , and at what extent, the sliding among different public roles must be related with the “arbitraire” of the caliph or rather if it would be reasonable to discern in it some automatisms, some unregulated, although already applied paths. For this purpose, we carried out a survey of the figures who had offices in the administration of the ʿAbbāsid state during the second half of the 2nd/8th century, i.e. the Barmakids and those who evolved with them on the political scenario. In such initial stage, we confined our survey to the figures appearing in the Kitāb al-wuzarā’ wa’l-kuttāb by al-Jahshiyārī (d. 331/942) that is, with the al-Ṣūlī’s one, the most ancient collection of akhbār devoted to the vizirs. We actually think that this work has a historical as well as a symbolic significance. In our opinion the fact of having been produced inside the officials milieu of the 4th/10th century increases its value as a source for the social history of the first ʿAbbāsid period. Facing to the problem of the sliding among different public roles, we tried to fix some criteria for the statistical analysis of this phenomenon, as well as to deduce how this could be used for the study of the social components of the ʿAbbāsid élite.
2010
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Settore L-OR/10 - STORIA DEI PAESI ISLAMICI
French
ʿAbbāsid caliphate; social history; Barmakids; al-Jahshiyari author
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09503110903549905
Stasolla, M.g. (2010). Catégories et fontions dans l’appareil de l’État au temps des Barmécides. AL-MASĀQ, 22(1), 1-25 [10.1080/09503110903549905].
Stasolla, Mg
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