Consorts of the Caliphs. Ibn al-Sa'i

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      2 See Ibn al-Sāʿī, Consorts of the Caliphs, §13.5 below. References to Consorts of the Caliphs are hereafter referred to by the paragraph number of the entry.

      PREFACE

      3 Details of how we workshopped and translated the book can be found in the “Note on the Translation” below.

      INTRODUCTION

      4 Jawād, “Introduction,” 18, 20, in Ibn al-Sāʿī, Nisāʾ al-khulafāʾ.

      5 The “daughter of Ṭulūn the Turk” “who married one of her dalliances” (§35).

      6 See §30.5 and §§31–39 below.

      7 See §10.2 and §16.2, where impressive isnāds serve in each case to introduce a two-line occasional poem.

      8 See §30.4.1.

      9 See “Note on the Edition” in the hardcover edition of Consorts of the Caliphs.

      10 See “Note on the Translation” below; for the text of the miscellany, see the “Online Material > Book Supplements” page of the website of the Library of Arabic Literature: www.libraryofarabicliterature.org.

      11 Ibn al-Sāʿī, Mukhtaṣar, 142.

      12 See Hartmann, “al-Nāṣir li-Dīn Allāh”; and Hillenbrand, “al-Mustanṣir (I).”

      13 Ibn al-Sāʿī, Mukhtaṣar, 127.

      14 Brief Lives adopts this inaccurate periodicity for dramatic effect. In Consorts of the Caliphs, the following are mentioned as having been killed: the sixth Abbasid caliph, al-Amīn (r. 193–98/809–13) (at §11); the tenth, al-Mutawakkil (r. 232–47/847–61) (at §15.6); and the eighteenth, al-Muqtadir (r. 295–320/908–32) (at §23.1).

      15 Ibn al-Sāʿī, Mukhtaṣar, 129–41.

      16 See §30.4.1.

      17 See §26 (Khātūn), §27 (Banafshā), §29 (Saljūqī Khātūn). ʿIṣmah Khātūn (§24) founded a law college in Isfahan; Shāhān (§30) spent huge sums on Baghdadi tradesmen, and Khātūn al-Safariyyah (§37) provisioned the pilgrim route.

      18 Jawād’s bibliography gives the titles of fifty-six items. Items 1–7, 9, 12, 15, 17–24, 26, 34–37, 39, 43–46, 51, 53 and 55 are listed by the Ottoman bibliographer Ḥājjī Khalīfah (1017–67/1609–57); see Jawād, “Introduction,” 23–32, for references.

      19 Ibn al-Sāʿī, al-Jāmiʿ al-mukhtaṣar. It originally went up to 1258, but of the original thirty volumes, only volume 9 (years 595–606/1199–1209) is extant; see Jawād, “Introduction,” 26, no. 21.

      20 Against the attribution are Jawād, “Introduction,” 24, n. 4 and, seemingly, Lindsay, “Ibn al-Sāʿī.” Rosenthal, “Ibn al-Sāʿī,” 925, thinks it a “brief and mediocre history … unlikely to go back to [Ibn al-Sāʿī].” The attribution is silently accepted by Ziriklī, al-Aʿlām, 4:265, and Hartmann, “al-Nāṣir li-Dīn Allāh.” Robinson, Islamic Historiography, 117, argues that it is an epitome composed by Ibn al-Sāʿī as part of “a large industry of popularizing history” that had been practiced for centuries.

      21 Ibn al-Sāʿī wrote several histories of the caliphs, including one whose title suggests it was in verse: Naẓm manthūr al-kalām fī dhikr al-khulafāʾ al-kirām (Versified Prose: the Noble Caliphs Recalled). This was presumably meant as an aide-mémoire, verse (naẓm) being more memorizable than prose (manthūr al-kalām). He wrote another “for persons of refinement” (ẓurafāʾ), Bulghat al-ẓurafāʾ ilā maʿrifat tārīkh al-khulafāʾ (Getting to Know the History of the Caliphs, for Persons of Refinement); see Jawād, “Introduction,” 32, no. 53, and 25, no. 17. Another example of his practice of recasting his own works was his commentary on the famous and difficult literary Maqāmāt (fifty picaresque episodes in rhymed prose and verse) of al-Ḥarīrī (446–516/1054–1122), which he produced in three sizes: jumbo (twenty-five volumes), medium, and abridged; see Jawād, “Introduction,” 32, no. 54, and 28, nos. 33 and 32.

      22 Jawād, “Introduction,” 16–17, 19.

      23 Ibn Wāṣil al-Ḥamawī (604–97/1208–98), MS of Ishfāʾ al-qulūb, f. 231, quoted by Jawād, “Introduction,” 8; see also Hartmann, “al-Nāṣir li-Dīn Allāh,” 999, 1001.

      24 Hartmann, “al-Nāṣir li-Dīn Allāh,” 999–1002.

      25 §§2–7, 9–11, 13–19, 31; see also 34, 36.

      26 §3.2.

      27 Jawād, “Introduction,” 25, no. 15; see also 30, no. 47: Manāqib al-khulafāʾ al-ʿAbbāsiyyīn (The Virtues of the Abbasid Caliphs).

      28 Jawād, “Introduction,” 27, no. 27.

      29 Jawād, “Introduction,” 31, no. 52. Ibn al-Sāʿī refers to this work in the year 596/1199–1200 in al-Jāmiʿ al-mukhtaṣar, 9:43.

      30 Jawād, “Introduction,” 25, no. 12, and 29, no. 38.

      31 Jawād, “Introduction,” 28, no. 29, and 31, no. 50.

      32 Jawād, “Introduction,” 17, quoting al-Qifṭī (568–646/1172–1248), Tārīḫ al-ḥukamāʾ, 177. This seems to have been in addition to the library installed in Saljūqī Khātūn’s mausoleum: see §29.2.1; and §29.2.2 for the Sufi lodge which according to Ibn al-Sāʿī was built not by Saljūqī Khātūn, but by al-Nāṣir in her memory.

      33 See a later source that quotes Ibn al-Sāʿī as a witness to such donations, cited by Jawād, “Introduction,” 21.

      34 Jawād, “Introduction,” 18, 20.

      35 Jawād, “Introduction,” 30, no. 48, and 28, no. 34.

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