The Fall of the Barmakids in Historiography and Fiction: Recognition and Disclosure

This study traces a centuries-long development in, transformation of, and argues for a variegated rapport between a group of disparate texts, some historiographical, some fictitious. Classical historiographies recounting the Barmakid debacle (al-Ṭabarī through Ibn Khallikān), late medieval and pre-m...

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Main Author: Kennedy, Philip (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2016
In: Journal of Abbasid Studies
Year: 2016, Volume: 3, Issue: 2, Pages: 167-238
Further subjects:B Anagnorisis Arabian Nights Barmakids comedy intertextuality recognition tragedy
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)