Ibn Baqiyya · Islam Museum

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Roles: Vizier
Era: Abbasid Fragmentation
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Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Ghani ibn Sa'id al-Azdi · Abd al-Jabbar al-Hamadhani · Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ali al-Baghdadi · Abd Allah ibn Zaydun · Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani, Muhammad ibn Muhammad

Summary

The vizier Abu'l-Tahir Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Baqiyya ibn 'Ali, surnamed Nasir al-Dawla; of the people of Awana in Baghdad's district, vizier of 'Izz al-Dawla Bakhtiyar ibn Mu'izz al-Dawla ibn Buya, and among the greatest chiefs and noblest viziers and most generous — the monthly quota of his candles was a thousand mann; when his master turned on him he ordered him thrown to the lions, which killed him; he was then crucified by his house at Bab al-Taq, and the poet Ibn 'Anbari elegised him. ¹

Sources

Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan

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