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Kabul Shah's Submission to al-Ma'mun

إذعان كابل شاه للمأمون

Kabul

Al-Ma'mun loosed the troops on Sughd, Ushrusana and Farghana's breachers with incessant raids and daw'a letters; a force sent to Kabul Shah drew his tribute and submission — and the post-road ran till green myrobalan reached the caliph as fresh fruit.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Al-Baladhuri says that the king of Kabul, Kabul Shah, paid the tribute and submitted to obedience after al-Ma'mun sent an army against him. 1

The account

When al-Ma'mun succeeded, he raided Sughd, Ushrusana and Farghana, and pressed them with raids while he was in Khurasan. He wrote to them calling them to Islam and obedience. He sent an army against Kabul Shah; he paid the tribute and submitted. The post reached it so that fresh myrobalan was carried from it. 1

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Had participant
Abd Allah al-Ma'mun ibn Harun al-Rashid
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Kabul

People and things also explored

Bayt al-Hikma — the House of Wisdom· Census of the Descendants of al-Abbas in the Year 200· al-Ma'mun's designation of Ali al-Rida as heir· Clash of Tahir ibn al-Husayn with Ali ibn Isa· The Conquest of Crete· The Accession of Harun al-Rashid· The Division of the Caliphate among al-Rashid's Sons· Kabul's Opening and its King's Islam under al-Ma'mun

Sources

  1. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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Bayt al-Hikma — the House of Wisdom

The House of Wisdom at Baghdad, the greatest library whose report survives from the first Abbasid age: al-Rashid laid its nucleus and al-Ma'mun enlarged and strengthened it. Al-Rashid put Yuhanna ibn Masawayh over the translation of the ancient medical books found in Byzantine lands with skilled scribes writing before him; Abu Sahl al-Fadl ibn Nawbakht rendered Persian wisdom-books into Arabic in its khizana, and Allan al-Shu'ubi copied for al-Rashid, al-Ma'mun and the Barmakids. Al-Ma'mun widened it, sending to the Byzantine emperor for the ancient sciences an embassy of al-Hajjaj ibn Matar, Ibn al-Bitriq and Salm the master of the House, and making Sahl ibn Harun keeper of its treasuries — though its precise organisation and site remain wrapped in obscurity.