The Islamic khalifhate in persons since
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Abstract
The article presents an analysis “Wafiyat al-aslaf wa tahiyat al-akhlaf” (“Detailed about predecessors and greetings to descendants”) is a biographical encyclopaedic dictionary about 6057 famous scientists, writers, philosophers, dignitaries, rulers and figures of the East, made by Shihabuddin Marjani in Arabic in the form of a manuscript of six volumes. The aim of the research is to study in more detail the historical period 170–181 Hijra as described in “Wafiyyat al-aslaf wa tahiyyat al-akhlaf”. The task of the study was to understand the religious, cultural, educational, and social aspects of the life of that time through the example of ten outstanding personalities cited in this work: Musa (al-Hadi) bin Muhammad (al-Mahdi) Ibn Abi Jaʼfar al-Mansur, Al-Hayzauran bint Ata, wife of Caliph Al-Mahdi and mother of Al-Hadi and AlRashid, son of Muhammad (Al-Mahdi), son of Al-Mansur Al-Abbasi, Abu Jaafar – fifth caliph of the Abbasid state in Iraq, Marwan bin Sulayman bin Yahya bin Abi Hafsa, Abu Yusuf Yaʼqub bin Ibrahim al-Ansari.
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Gataullin I.G. The Islamic khalifhate in persons since // Bulletin of the Bolgar Islamic Academy, 2024, no 1, рр. 7–12.
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