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" al-Fatḥ b. Khāqān - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Gordon, Matthew S.
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English
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1060134
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ALei531
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Gordon, Matthew S.
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al-Fatḥ b. Khāqān - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Gordon, Matthew S.
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(609 words)
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Al-Fatḥ b. Khāqān (b. c. 200/817–8, d. 247/861–2) was an ʿAbbāsid courtier, diplomat, and scholar. His father, Khāqān ʿUrṭūj, was probably of Turkic/Inner Asian noble origin, as the (reconstructed) name suggests. There are no indications of ties to the Farghāna (Fergana) valley (pace Pinto, “Favorito,” 134) nor of enslavement of any family members, as was the case with many of the so-called Atrāk (Inner Asian soldiers, lit., Turks) of ʿAbbāsid Sāmarrāʾ. The family probably represented the presence in ʿAbbāsid Iraq of a free,
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Islam.
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