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Recovering a Lost Biography: Abu Bakr al-Suli’s Portrayal of al-Rida – Part 2

August 23, 2024

In Kitab al-Awraq, al-?uli took up the ambitious task of chronicling the biographies of all former Abbasid Caliphs and prominent poets up to his own day. He called the work al-Awraq ‘pages’ because he devoted many ‘pages’ to the biography of each subject.

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