Hilal al-Sabi'
Abūʾl-Ḥusayn Hilāl b. 969 A.D, died: 447-448 A.H./1056 A.D.) (aged 90 lunar) was a historian, bureaucrat, and writer of Arabic. Hilal al-Sabi' was born into a family of Sabian bureaucrats, al-Ṣābi converted to Islam in 402-403 A.H/1012 AD. First working under the Buyid amir Ṣamṣām al-Dawla, he later became the Director of the Chancery under Baha' al-Daula's vizier Fakhr al-Mulk.
Hilal al-Sabi'
- Name
- Hilal al-Sabi'
- Birth Name
- Abūʾl-Ḥusayn Hilāl b.
- Born
- 969 CE
- Birthplace
- Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate (modern-day Iraq)
- Died
- 1056 CE
- Occupation
- Historian, Bureaucrat, Writer
- Nationality
- Abbasid Caliphate
- Languages
- Arabic
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Abūʾl-Ḥusayn Hilāl b. 969 A.D, died: 447-448 A.H./1056 A.D.) (aged 90 lunar) was a historian, bureaucrat, and writer of Arabic. Hilal al-Sabi' was born into a family of Sabian bureaucrats, al-Ṣābi converted to Islam in 402-403 A.H/1012 AD. First working under the Buyid amir Ṣamṣām al-Dawla, he later became the Director of the Chancery under Baha' al-Daula's vizier Fakhr al-Mulk.
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• Name — Hilal al-Sabi' • Birth Name — Abūʾl-Ḥusayn Hilāl b. Muḥassin b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṣābīʾ • Born — 969 CE • Birthplace — Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate (modern-day Iraq) • Died — 1056 CE • Place of death — Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate (modern-day Iraq) • Occupation — Historian, Bureaucrat, Writer • Notable Works — Rusum dar al-khilafa, Kitab al-wuzara, Tarikh Hilal al-Sabi • Era — Buyid era
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Hilal al-Sabi' is the author of numerous books, not all of which have survived. Bureaucratic matters and matters of the court were his main themes, along with history. • The Rules and Regulations of the Abbasid Court - (Arabic: رسوم دار الخلافة Rusum dar al-khilafa) Perhaps his most famous book is the Rusum dar al-khilafa which is a manual for behavior and work in the Abbasid court of late Buyid Baghdad. Though it is designed as a set of instructions and advice, the book contains numerous statistics, anecdotes and historical asides. • The Book of Viziers - (Arabic: كتاب الوزراء Kitab al-wuzara) Only of the beginning of this work has survived, which deals with the viziers of the caliph Al-Muqtadir. • History of Hilal al-Sabi' - (Arabic: تاريخ ابي الحسين هلال بن المحسن بن ابراهيم الصابي Tarikh Hilal al-Sabi) This too survives only in fragmentary form, but its fragments fill a gap in the chronicles of the late Buyid era, up to the year 393 hijri (1003 AD).
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- 1.Sourdel, 1971 .
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- Hilāl b. al-Muḥassin b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṣābiʾ. D. Sourdel.
- Hilāl al-Sābi’. Rusūm Dār al-Khilāfa: The Rules and Regulations of the Abbasid Court. Trans. Elie A. Salem. American University of Beirut, 1977.
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