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Sharaf al-Dawla lifts unjust levies from Iraq

شرف الدولة يرفع المظالم عن العراق

c. 987 CE · 377 AH

In 377 Sharaf al-Dawla lifted many unjust levies from Iraq — among them returning all of al-Sharif Abu al-Hasan Muhammad b. Umar's estates yielding two and a half million dirhams a year — while Baghdad prices ran beyond description 1.

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Era
The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region
Levant & Iraq
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9709809901000 c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era

Summary

In 377 AH Sharaf al-Dawla lifted many injustices from Iraq 1.

Restoring property

Among these, he returned to the nobleman Abu al-Hasan Muhammad ibn Umar all of his property. Its yearly revenue had been 2,500,000 dirhams, and prices in Baghdad were beyond description at the time 1.

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شرف الدولة بن ركن الدولة

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Sharaf al-Dawla's observatory at Baghdad· شرف الدولة بن ركن الدولة

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 88
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