al-Balawī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" al-Balawī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Gordon, Matthew S.

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1060033
Doc. NO	:	ALei430
Main Entry	:	Gordon, Matthew S.
Title & Author	:	al-Balawī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Gordon, Matthew S.
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(731 words)
Abstract	:	Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad al-Madīnī al-Balawī was an Egyptian historian and minor traditionist, possibly of Imāmī affiliation. His dates are unknown. Citing internal evidence in Sīrat Aḥmad b. Ṭūlūn , the text for which al-Balawī is best known, Shayyal argues plausibly that he flourished in the late fourth/tenth century, suggesting that he wrote for a member of the short-lived Ikhshīdid dynasty of Egypt (r. 323–58/935–69). The Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadīm (d. 385/995) is the chief source of later biographical entries (
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei430.pdf