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The investiture of al-Sharif al-Radi in black with the headship of the nuqaba'

خلع السواد على الشريف الرضي بنقابة النقباء

c. 8 August 1012 CE · 16 Muharram 403 AH

Baghdad

On Friday 16 Muharram 403 al-Sharif Abu'l-Hasan al-Musawi, al-Radi, was entrusted with the headship of the nuqaba' of the Talibids in all the realms. A patent to that effect came to him from the court of Baha' al-Dawla. It was read in the house of Fakhr al-Mulk in his presence, after the notables among the sharifs, judges, scholars and soldiers had been assembled, and he was robed in a black robe of honour, the first Talibid in the history of the Abbasid state to be so robed 1.

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
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Levant & Iraq
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era

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Baghdad

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On Friday 16 Muharram 403 the Sharif al-Radi Abu'l-Hasan al-Musawi was invested as naqib of the Talibids in all realms: his patent came from Baha' al-Dawla's presence, read at Fakhr al-Mulk's house before the assembled notables — ashraf, judges, scholars, soldiers — and a black robe of honor was conferred on him: the first Talibid in Abbasid history to receive the black 1.

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Baghdad
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al-Sharif al-Radi· Fakhr al-Mulk· بهاء الدولة أبو نصر بن عضد الدولة

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Sources

  1. al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , j.7 p.260
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