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The
History of al-Tabari
`Abbasid Authority Affirmed
`Abbasid Authority Affirmed
Volume XXVIII
Translated by Jane Dammen McAuliffe
The initial years (126-145) of al-Mansur's reign presented several
significant challenges to nascent `Abbasid hegemony, and the resulting
confrontations constitute the central focus of this section of Tabari's
Tarikh.
After Abu Ja'far succeeded his brother Abu al-`Abbas as caliph,
the second of the `Abbasid dynasty, he moved against his recalcitrant
uncle, `Abdallah b. `Ali, and against the potential threat that he perceived
in the person of the commander in Khurisan, Abu Muslim. Eliminating
the latter and containing the former freed the caliph to address a series of
other onslaughts and insurrections.
Starting with the year 144, however, Tabarl turned to this volume's
principal preoccupation, to which half of the book is devoted. Judging
by the attention given to it, he dearly perceived the Ilasanid rebellions
of Muhammad b. `Abdallah (the Pure Soul) and of his brother Ibrahim
to be the most substantial attack on `Abbasid authority to arise in the
first years of that dynasty. Tabari's description of the prolonged search for
Muhammad and Ibrahim and of the caliphal venegeance visited upon
their father and family provides an extended prelude to the vivid battle
and death scenes in Medina and Ba'khamra. Yet, elaboration of these
events does not eclipse mention of all other `Abbasid activity. To bridge
the account of Muhammad's defeat and that of lbrahim's uprising,
Tabar7 inserted a narrative interlude depicting the site selection and
preliminary construction of al-Mansur's most celebrated achievement,
the City of Peace, Baghdad.
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THE HISTORY OF AL
-TABARI
AN ANNOTATED TRANSLATION
VOLUME XXVIII
Abbasid Authority Affirmed
THE EARLY YEARS OF AL
-MAN$UR
A.D. 753-763/
A.H. 136-145
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The History of al-Tabari
Editorial Board
Ihsan Abbas, University of Jordan, Amman
C. E. Bosworth, The University of Manchester
Franz Rosenthal, Yale University
Everett K. Rowson, The University of Pennsylvania
Ehsan Yar-Shater, Columbia University
(General Editor)
Estelle
Whelan,
Editorial Coordinator
Center
for Iranian
Studies
Columbia University
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Said Amir Arjomand, Editor
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The preparation of this volume was made possible in part by
a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities,
an
independent federal agency.
Bibliotheca Persica
Edited by Ehsan Yar-Shater
The History of, al-Tabari
(Ta'rikh
al-rusul
wa 1-muluk)
VOLUME XXVIII
Abbasid Authority Affirmed
translated and annotated
by
Jane
Dammen
McAuliffe
University of Toronto
State University of New York Press

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