TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pomerantz,Maurice A.
AU  - Ṣāḥib al-Ṭālqānī,Abū al-Qāsim Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAbbād
TI  - Licit magic: the life and letters of al-Ṣaḥib born ʻAbbad (d. 385/995) 
T2  - Islamic history and civilization
SN  - 9789004348042
AV  - PJ7750.S26 
U1  - 892.7/634 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Ṣāḥib al-Ṭālqānī, Abū al-Qāsim Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAbbād,
KW  - Authors, Arab
KW  - Biography
KW  - Viziers
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material -- An Introduction to Ibn ʿAbbād and His Letters -- A Life in Politics -- A Muʿtazilī Polymath -- A Patron and Social Networker -- A Letter Writer and His Letters -- Sulṭāniyyāt: Governmental and Administrative Letters -- Letters of Friendship (Ikhwāniyyāt) -- Ibn ʿAbbād as Epistolographer -- Conclusion -- Translation of a Letter of Conquest -- A Guide to the Extant Letters of Ibn ʿAbbād -- Bibliography -- Index of Arabic Terms -- Index of Proper Names; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - In Licit Magic: The Life and Letters of al-Ṣāḥib born ʿAbbād (d. 385/995) Maurice A. Pomerantz explores the biography and literary output of a major tenth-century Muslim statesman, literary patron, and intellectual. His nearly two-decade reign as vizier on behalf of two Buyid amirs was an important period for the flowering of Arabic letters, Muʿtazilī theology and Shīʿism in Western Iran. Making use of Ibn ʿAbbād’s large corpus of letters ( rasāʾil ), Pomerantz explores the role that eloquence played in the conduct of administration, the maintenance of social networks of elites, and persuasion. Licit Magic argues that the eloquent expression that Ibn ʿAbbād displayed in his letters was central to his exercise of power
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004348042
ER  -