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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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    author Abu Ubayd al-Salam in his Kitab al-amwal. It is likely that al-Tabari too has concealed parts of the admission because al-Mas'udi writes in his report...
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    contrast, the Sunni historian al-Khatib al-Baghdadi (d. 1071) and the Shia-leaning historians al-Mas'udi (d. 956) and al-Ya'qubi (d. 897-898) place the...
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    1994, p. 160. al-Tabari, pp. 170–171. al-Mas'udi 1874, pp. 43–44. Ibn Khallikān, pp. 314–316, 318–319. al-Mas'udi 1874, pp. 44–45. al-Tabari, p. 171...
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    before it was fully defeated. Several Muslim historians, such as al-Tabari and al-Mas'udi, consider the Zanj revolt to be one of the "most vicious and brutal...
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    sides. The historian al-Tabari provided a lengthy and detailed account of the war. Other Muslim historians, such as al-Mas'udi and al-Ya'qubi, also mentioned...
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    local polities, they hired soldiers (mercenaries) (the junûd murtazîqa in al-Mas'ûdî). At the peak of their empire, the Khazars ran a centralised fiscal administration...
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    Bosworth, "al-Muntasir," p. 583 Kennedy, 266-68 Gordon, pp. 88-91 Al-Tabari, v. 34: p. 204; Ibn al-Athir, p. 111. Al-Mas'udi, p. 300, states that al-Muntasir...
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    ff.. Al-Mas'udi 1873, p. 122. Al-Ya'qubi 1892, pp. 259, 266. Northedge 2008, p. 183. Al-Muqaddasi 2001, p. 55. Northedge 2008, pp. 183, 242. Al-Ya'qubi...
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  • 1985–2007, v. 30: pp. 25 ff.; Al-Mas'udi 1861–1877, v. 6: pp. 266-67 (substituting al-Hasan for al-Husayn ibn Ali); Gordon et al. 2018, p. 1150; Khalifah ibn...
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