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The restoration of the khutba to Jalal al-Dawla in Baghdad

عودة الخطبة لجلال الدولة ببغداد

c. 1027 CE · 418 AH

Baghdad

In 418 the Baghdad crowd pressed the caliph until Abu Kalijar was deposed and the khutba was restored to Jalal al-Dawla Abu Tahir 1.

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Era
The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region
Levant & Iraq
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1010102010301040 c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era

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Baghdad

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Summary

In 418 AH the court officials gathered in Baghdad and plotted against the caliph until he removed Abu Kalijar, and the khutba was restored to Jalal al-Dawla Abu Tahir 1.

Context of the dispute

The troops had turned to King Abu Kalijar when the sultan Sharaf al-Dawla died in 416 AH, and his name was read in the khutba in Baghdad. Then the court officials reversed course and demanded that the khutba be restored to Jalal al-Dawla, who had taken power in Basra 2.

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Baghdad
Had participant
جلال الدولة أبو طاهر بن بهاء الدولة· al-Malik Abu Kalijar ibn Sultan al-Dawla

People and things also explored

The ghilman's expulsion of Jalal al-Dawla from Baghdad, 423· Abu Kalijar Enters Baghdad and the Kettledrums Are Beaten for Him· The ghilman's seizure and humiliation of Jalal al-Dawla, 424· Death of Abu Kalijar and investiture of al-Malik al-Rahim· The public declaration of al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah as heir, 421· The Shahanshah laqab controversy· The Nizamiyya Madrasa of Baghdad· Bayt al-Hikma — the House of Wisdom

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 209
  2. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 204, 209
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The ghilman's expulsion of Jalal al-Dawla from Baghdad, 423

The ghilman swore to depose Jalal al-Dawla and cancelled the khutba in his name on Friday, 3 Rabi' I 423. They dismissed his concubines and demanded that he go down to Wasit; 100 ghilman went down with him, then only 20. He fled on the night of Monday, 6 Rabi' I, to Akbara, and the royal residence was plundered. He wrote to the isfahsalar Abu Kalijar, inviting him, but Abu Kalijar replied cautiously, asking for 500 ghilman. Jalal went to al-Hilla, prostrated himself before Kamal al-Dawla Abu Sinan, gave him his daughter in marriage and promised him treasures. Abu Sinan interceded for him, and his khutba was restored on 17 Rabi' I in the congregational mosques of the city and al-Rusafa, and then in the caliph's mosque on the third Friday. In Shawwal he drank wine in a garden of the caliph's residence; al-Qa'im reproached him, and he apologised.