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In Licit Magic: The Life and Letters of al-Ṣāḥib born ʿAbbād (d. 385/995) Maurice A. Pomerantz explores the biography and literary output of a major tenth-century Muslim statesman, literary patron, and intellectual. His nearly two-decade reign as vizier on behalf of two Buyid amirs was an important period for the flowering of Arabic letters, Muʿtazilī theology and Shīʿism in Western Iran. Making use of Ibn ʿAbbād’s large corpus of letters ( rasāʾil ), Pomerantz explores the role that eloquence played in the conduct of administration, the maintenance of social networks of elites, and persuasion. Licit Magic argues that the eloquent expression that Ibn ʿAbbād displayed in his letters was central to his exercise of power.

Authors, Arab. --- Viziers. --- Brief. --- Viziers --- Ṣāḥib Ibn-ʻAbbād, Ismāʻīl aṣ-, --- Ṣāḥib al-Ṭālqānī, Abū al-Qāsim Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAbbād, --- Authors, Arab --- Literary style. --- Vizirs --- Wazirs (Viziers) --- Arab authors --- Ṣāḥib al-Ṭālqānī, Abū al-Qāsim Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAbbād, --- Abū al-Qāsim Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAbbād al-Ṣāḥib al-Ṭālqānī, --- Ṣāḥib ibn ʻAbbād, --- Ibn ʻAbbād, al-Ṣāḥib, --- Ibn ʻAbbād, Abū al-Qāsim Ismāʻīl, --- صاحب التالقاني، ابو القاسم اسماعيل بن عباد --- صاحب التلقاني، أبو القاسم اسماعيل بن عباد --- صاحب الطالقانى، أبو القاسم إسماعيل بن أحمد، --- صاحب الطالقاني، أبو القاسم اسماعيل بن عباد --- صاحب الطالقاني، أبو القاسم اسماعيل بن عباد، --- صاحب الطالقاني، أبوالقاسم اسماعيل بن عباد --- صاحب الطلقاني، أبو القاسم اسماعيل بن عباد