Sahib ibn Abbad

Abu’l-Qāsim Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbbād ibn al-ʿAbbās (Persian: ابوالقاسم اسماعیل بن عباد بن عباس‎; born 938 - died 30 March 995), better known as Sahib ibn Abbad (صاحب بن عباد), also known as al-Sahib (الصاحب), was a Persian scholar and statesman, who served as the grand vizier of the Buyid rulers of Ray from 976 to 995.[1][2]

Sahib ibn Abbad
Grand Vizier of the Buyid emirate of Ray
In office
976–995
MonarchMu'ayyad al-Dawla
Fakhr al-Dawla
Preceded byAbu'l-Fath Ali ibn Muhammad
Succeeded byUnknown
Personal
Born14 September 938
Talaqancha, near Isfahan
Died30 March 995
Ray, Jibal
ReligionIslam
Parents
  • Abu'l-Hasan Abbad ibn Abbas (father)
CreedMu'tazila

A native of the suburbs of Isfahan, he was greatly interested in Arab culture, and wrote on dogmatic theology, history, grammar, lexicography, scholarly criticism and wrote poetry and belles-lettres.[3]

Biography

Family and early life
Map of northern Iran

Sahib was born on 14 September 938 in Talaqancha, a village roughly 20 miles south of the major Buyid city of Isfahan. His father was Abu'l-Hasan Abbad ibn Abbas (d. 946), a renowned and well-educated administrator, who composed works on the Mu'tazili doctrine. Sahib spent his childhood at Talakan, a town in Daylam near Qazvin.[4] He later settled in Isfahan, and served for some time as an official of the Buyid ruler of Jibal, Rukn al-Dawla (r. 935–976). After the death of his father, Sahib became the pupil of the scholar and philosopher, Ibn 'al-Amid, who had recently replaced Sahib's deceased father as the vizier of Rukn al-Dawla.[5]

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References
  1. Donohue 2003, p. 140.
  2. Cook, Michael (2001). Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought. Cambridge University Press. p. 201. ISBN 9781139431606.
  3. Donzel, E. J. van (1 January 1994). Islamic Desk Reference. BRILL. p. 142. ISBN 978-90-04-09738-4. Ibn Abbad*, Abu l-Qasim* (al-Sahib): vizier and man of letters of the Buyid period; 938995. Of Persian origin, he was an arabophile and wrote on dogmatic theology, history, grammar, lexicography, literary criticism and composed poetry and belles-lettres.
  4. Pellat & Cahen 2012.
  5. Pomerantz.

Sources
Preceded by
Abu'l-Fath Ali ibn Muhammad		 Grand Vizier of the Buyid amirate of Ray
976 – 995		 Succeeded by
Unknown
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