Abū Ḥafṣ ‛Amr b. ‛Alī b. Baḥr Saqqāʾ Baṣrī (d. 249) and a Page from Islamic Historiography in the First Half of the Third/Ninth
Document Type : pajoohesh
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10.22081/jap.2025.78027
Abstract
The third century AH was a period in which the disciplines that would later be recognized as the Islamic sciences flourished. The science of ḥadīth was the mother of these disciplines and profoundly influenced other Islamic fields such as tafsīr, fiqh, ethical writings, and works on asceticism. The science of rijāl (biographical evaluation), situated between ḥadīth and history, also emerged and developed during this century. The genre of history in the sense of biographical history—such as the Tārīkh of al-Bukhārī or the Tārīkh of Yaḥyā b. Ma‛īn—belongs to this very period. One recently discovered work is the al-Tārīkh authored by Ibn al-Fallās (d. 249), which represents a combination of Islamic history and rijāl. In this article, we seek to illustrate a particular model of historiography from this era by reviewing this work.
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