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

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" Aḥdāth - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Gordon, Matthew S.

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1060540
Doc. NO	:	ALei937
Main Entry	:	Gordon, Matthew S.
Title & Author	:	Aḥdāth - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Gordon, Matthew S.
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(1,727 words)
Abstract	:	Aḥdāth (lit., “young men”) is usually understood to refer to urban militias of post-third/ninth century Syria and the Jazīra. The term's etymology (from ḥ-d-th , “to occur, come to pass”) remains obscure.The earliest Arabic references, for Kufa and Basra exclusively, are to an office of aḥdāth in the later Umayyad and early ʿAbbāsid periods (von Sievers, 214–216). The largest number of references occurs in al-Ṭabarī's Taʾrīkh (ed. de Goeje; in the English translation, direct references are 14:16; 15:136, 189; 26:
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei937.pdf