Al-Rabi' ibn Yunus
Al-Rabīʾ ibn Yūnus ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Farwa (c. 730 – 785/6) was a freedman who became one of the leading ministers of the early Abbasid Caliphate, serving under the caliphs al-Mansur, al-Mahdi and al-Hadi. Al-Rabi’ was born to a slave woman near Medina about 730 CE. His father Yunus, the scion of a well-to-do family, denied his paternity, and the infant was sent to another family and eventually to an estate in the desert where he was reduced to menial labour.
Al-Rabi' ibn Yunus
- Born
- 730 · Medina Province.
- Died
- 785 · Iraq.
- Nationality
- Abbasid Caliphate
- Occupation
- statesperson · poet · writer
- Languages
- Arabic
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Al-Rabīʾ ibn Yūnus ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Farwa (c. 730 – 785/6) was a freedman who became one of the leading ministers of the early Abbasid Caliphate, serving under the caliphs al-Mansur, al-Mahdi and al-Hadi. Al-Rabi’ was born to a slave woman near Medina about 730 CE. His father Yunus, the scion of a well-to-do family, denied his paternity, and the infant was sent to another family and eventually to an estate in the desert where he was reduced to menial labour.
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Born at Medina Province in 730, died in Iraq in 785.
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- Al-Rabīʾ b. Yūnus. A.S. Atiya. 350–351.
- Kennedy, Hugh. When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: The Rise and Fall of Islam's Greatest Dynasty. Da Capo Press. 2006. 978-0-306814808.
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