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In response to archaeological and written proof, this quantity provides a learn of water use and water know-how in a space from Mesopotamia to the Atlantic Ocean, from the start of the Neolithic interval as much as c. advert six hundred.
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68 Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Tiirikh 12:60. 69 Ibn I;Iajar, Lisiin 1:352; Waki', Akhbiir 3:280. 70 71 72 73 74 Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Tiirikh 6:288. Ibn Abi al-Wafii', Jawiihir 1:458. ~mad ibn 'Abd al-Ra~man, Dhayl, apud al-Kindi, Governors, 477. Al-Kindi, Governors, 474f. Al-Suyiiti, Tiirikh al-khulafii' (Beirut: Dar al-Thaqafah, 1970's), 379f. Iv THE J;IANAFI SCHOOL OF THE LATER NINTH CENTURY CHAPTER THREE THE I:IANAFI SCHOOL OF THE LATER NINTH CENTURY The previous chapter has treated the development of a personali:Ianafi school; that is, the identification of jurisprudents with the teaching of Abu l:lanifah rather than vaguely with the teaching of all the jurisprudents of Kufa or Basra.
Aq al-Mu'ta~im, apud al-Tabari, Anna{es 3:1139 = Ttirikh 8:649. Th al-Baghdadi quotes a story of apparent defalcation, Tarikh 14:194f. 59 Waki', Akhbtir 3:294. According to al-~illi, Ibn Abi Duwad was actually advanced to spy on al-Mu'ta~im for al-Ma'miln. He ignored requests for information, though, and when al-Ma'miln ordered him sent back to Iraq in chains, he confirmed his favor with al-Mu'ta~im by showing him the requests he had ignored: apud alMaqrizi, al-Ttirikh al-kabir al-muqqffa, Pertev Pa§a (Istanbul) 496, 122a, b.
Vogel, 1872), 206 = fann 2, maqtilah 6. 13 52 CHAPTER THREE years. " That bothered me as it had bothered 'Abbad. I went to 'Abd Allah ibn Dawiid [al-Khuraybl, d. 213/828] and mentioned that to him. " 17 Plainly, traditionalist attacks had generated insecurity among the adherents of ra'y, and Ibn al-Thalji was trying to assuage them. He went on the offensive, as well. In Kitab al-Radd 'ald al-mushabbihah (Refutation of the Anthropomorphists), he attacked traditionalist theologians. 18 The Kitab al-Naqq 'ala Bishr al-Marfsf (Refutation of Bishr al-Marisi) of al-Darimi (d.
