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" Bukayr b. Māhān - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Agha, Saleh Said
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English
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1061150
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ALei1547
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Agha, Saleh Said
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Bukayr b. Māhān - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Agha, Saleh Said
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(1,464 words)
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Abū Hāshim Bukayr b. Māhān (d. 126/744) was the true father of the clandestine organisation al-Hāshimiyya, which toppled the Umayyads and in 132/750 instated the ʿAbbāsids; a veteran of the Umayyad establishment, yet its deadliest enemy; a resourceful and relentless man of stature, generosity, altruism, diligence, secretiveness, political finesse, and formidable organisational ability (Agha, 8); and a Persian mawlā of the proto-Shīʿī Banū Musliya in Kufa. There is little consensus on Bukayr and on many other aspects of the history of the Hāshimiyya (cf. Agha, xv–
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Islam.
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ALei1547.pdf
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