Musa ibn Abd al-Malik

موسى بن عبد الملك

860 CE · 246 AH

Musa b. Abd al-Malik al-Isbahani (d. Shawwal 246) — chief of the kharaj divan under several caliphs, eloquent epistolist and poet, remembered for the story of the singing-girl lost to him at al-Qadisiyya 1.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: Abu al-Ayna · Abu Awana, Ya'qub ibn Ishaq · أبو بكر النيسابوري عبد الله بن محمد بن زياد · Abu Dawud al-Sijistani · أبو جعفر الترمذي

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  1. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
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