The Early Abbasid Caliphate

The first century of Abbasid rule from Baghdad, when translation, learning, trade and the arts flourished. The museum roughly bounds it from 750 CE to about 861 CE. These boundaries are the museum's own organising convention and are not absolute.

The museum's holdings for this era today include: polities: 2, groups: 1, most frequently appearing figures: 8, works: 1, concepts: 3.

Polities

• The Abbasid Caliphate (750 CE to 1258 CE)
• The Emirate of Sicily (827 CE to 1091 CE)

Groups

• The Hanbali school

Most frequently appearing figures

• Ahmad ibn Hanbal
• Al-Kharaqi
• Abu Bakr al-Khallal
• Abu Bakr Abd al-Aziz (Ghulam al-Khallal)
• Ibn al-Banna
• Ibn Hamid
• Ibn Shaqla
• Al-Harbi

Works

• Mukhtasar al-Kharaqi

Concepts

• Continuity of the chain of transmission and proof of meeting
• "It is not fitting" in the words of Imam Ahmad
• Transmissions from Imam Ahmad

This era is still thinly covered in the museum (15 items only), so this page should not be read as a comprehensive survey of it. Its items are being added gradually from primary sources with each new batch.

The era's boundaries are the museum's own organising convention and are approximate. For the wider history of this period, see ^{1 2}.