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    al-Masʿūdī (full name Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-Masʿūdī, أبو الحسن علي بن الحسين بن علي المسعودي), c. 896–956, was a historian, geographer...
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    2023, pp. 309, 449. Abbott 1946, pp. 149–50. al-Tabari & Bosworth 1989, pp. 327–28. Masudi 2013, p. 276. Masudi 2013, p. 94. Bobrick 2012, p. 45. Bobrick...
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    historian Al-Masudi. According to him, "king al-Dir [Dayr] was the first among the kings of the Slavs." Although some scholars have tried to prove that "al-Dir"...
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    until the deposition of al-Qahir, when he was freed and raised to the throne (24 April 934). The contemporary historian al-Masudi describes him as pleasing...
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  • ٱلْجَوْهَر, Murūj aḏ-Ḏahab wa-Maʿādin al-Jawhar) is a 10th century history book by an Abbasid scholar al-Masudi. Written in Arabic and encompassing the...
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    notes of Al Masudi (Kamath 2001, p88) Kamath (2001), p88 Altekar (1934), p356 Altekar (1934), p354 Altekar (1934), p355 From notes of Periplus, Al Idrisi...
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  • "residence of the Najashi". In a similar context, in his Akhbar al-zaman, the same al-Masudi calls the Ethiopian capital "Kufar" or "Kafer". In the Arabic...
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    [citation needed] Even the earliest pro-Shia accounts of al-Masudi are more balanced. Al-Masudi's Ibn Hisham is the earliest Shia account of Muawiyah. He...
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  • Masudi or Masoodi may refer to: Al-Masudi (c. 896–956), Arab historian, geographer and traveler, Arab historian Masudi, Khuzestan, a village in Khuzestan...
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    historians al-Tabari and al-Masudi, who both lived under the Abbasids, do not consider the possibility of murder. In particular, al-Masudi writes that al-Rida...
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