علي بن عيسى الوزير

علي بن عيسى الوزير

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Ali ibn Isa, the vizier of the Abbasid caliph al-Muqtadir. Al-Tabari says that he was arrested in 304 AH, summoned from the Maghrib to take the vizierate in 314 AH, and arrested a second time in 316 AH. 1 2 3

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Al-Suyuti says that he was appointed vizier to al-Muqtadir in 301 AH, that he abolished wine, and that he abolished dues yielding five hundred thousand dinars a year. 4

Al-Mas'udi says that al-Muqtadir appointed him vizier twice, and that he was arrested in Dhu al-Hijja 304 AH. 5 Ibn al-Athir quotes his saying about al-Tabari, that the common people attached to him first the charge of Rafd and then of heresy. 6 Ibn al-Nadim gives a story about al-Hallaj with him. 7

Sources

  1. Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk — al-Tabari (ed. Abu al-Fadl Ibrahim) , j.11 p.59
  2. Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk — al-Tabari (ed. Abu al-Fadl Ibrahim) , j.11 p.112
  3. Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk — al-Tabari (ed. Abu al-Fadl Ibrahim) , j.11 p.117
  4. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition) , p.587,595
  5. Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi , p.660-661
  6. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir , p.99
  7. al-Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadim , p.270
  • al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi
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