Licit magic : the life and letters of al-Ṣaḥib b. ʻAbbad (d. 385/995) /

Licit magic : the life and letters of al-Ṣaḥib b. ʻAbbad (d. 385/995) /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Pomerantz, Maurice A., author.
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	Islamic history and civilization ; v. 146
Subject:	Ṣāḥib al-Ṭālqānī, Abū al-Qāsim Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAbbād, -- 936-995. Ṣāḥib al-Ṭālqānī, Abū al-Qāsim Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAbbād, -- 936-995 -- Literary style. Ṣāḥib al-Ṭālqānī, Abū al-Qāsim Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAbbād, -- 936-995. Authors, Arab -- Biography. Viziers -- Biography. Authors, Arab. Literary style. Viziers. Electronic books. Biographies.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12282409

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Other uniform titles:	Ṣāḥib al-Ṭālqānī, Abū al-Qāsim Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAbbād, 936-995. Correspondence. Selections.
ISBN:	9789004348042 9004348042 9789004345829 (hardback : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
Summary:	In Licit Magic: The Life and Letters of al-Ṣāḥib born ʿAbbād (d. 385/995) Maurice A. Pomerantz explores the biography and literary output of a major tenth-century Muslim statesman, literary patron, and intellectual. His nearly two-decade reign as vizier on behalf of two Buyid amirs was an important period for the flowering of Arabic letters, Muʿtazilī theology and Shīʿism in Western Iran. Making use of Ibn ʿAbbād's large corpus of letters ( rasāʾil ), Pomerantz explores the role that eloquence played in the conduct of administration, the maintenance of social networks of elites, and persuasion. Licit Magic argues that the eloquent expression that Ibn ʿAbbād displayed in his letters was central to his exercise of power.
Other form:	Print version: Pomerantz, Maurice A., author. Licit magic Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017] 9789004345829

Table of Contents:

Preliminary Material
An Introduction to Ibn ʿAbbād and His Letters
A Life in Politics
A Muʿtazilī Polymath
A Patron and Social Networker
A Letter Writer and His Letters
Sulṭāniyyāt: Governmental and Administrative Letters
Letters of Friendship (Ikhwāniyyāt)
Ibn ʿAbbād as Epistolographer
Conclusion
Translation of a Letter of Conquest
A Guide to the Extant Letters of Ibn ʿAbbād
Bibliography
Index of Arabic Terms
Index of Proper Names.