TY - JOUR AU - Lindstedt, Ilkka PY - 2017/05/30 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Al-Madāʾinī and the Narratives of the ʿAbbāsid Dawla JF - Studia Orientalia Electronica JA - StOrE VL - 5 IS - 0 SE - DO - 10.23993/store.63285 UR - https://journal.fi/store/article/view/63285 SP - 65-150 AB - <p>This is a study on the Arabic historical narratives of the ʿAbbāsid revolution and its aftermath that occurred in 747–755 CE. Its main focus is a medieval work on these events, called the <em>Kitāb </em><em>al-Dawla</em>, composed by an Arabic Muslim collector and composer of historical narratives, Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Muḥammad al-Madāʾinī (d. <em>c.</em>228/842–843). The work is not extant, but its skeleton can be reconstructed on the basis of later quotations of it. Al-Madāʾinī’s <em>Kitāb al-Dawla</em> is an important source for the events of the the ʿAbbāsid revolution: since al-Madāʾinī was not directly sponsored by the ʿAbbāsid dynasty, he was not constrained to be a spokesperson for the ruling house’s propaganda needs.</p> ER -