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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1868 Excerpt: ... (7) The word is tannir: it appears from M. de Sacy's life of al-Hakim, Exposi dt I'Hitloirt dts Druzes, page Ccclxv, that these lanters were sometimes of enormous size. (8) The author of ad-Dual al-ItlAmiya states positively that Ibn az-Zaiyat was tyrannical, overbearing, hard-hearted, and inhuman. He alludes also to the story of the lantern. IBN AL-AMID THE KAT1B. Abu '1-Fadl Muhammad Ibn Abi Abd Allah al-Husain Ibn Muhammad the kdtib, surnamed Ibn al-Amid, was vizir to Rukn ad-Dawlat Abu Ali al-Hasan Ibn Buwaih ad-Dailami, the father of Adud ad-Dawlat (vol. 1. p. 407, and vol. II. p. 481). The title of al-Amid (the column) had been given to his father by the people of Khorasan, in attributing to this word an intensitive signification, according to their custom(1). His father was a man of merit and displayed considerable abilities as an epistolary writer and a philologer. Ibn al-Amid succeeded Abu Ali '1-Kummi as vizir to Rukn ad-Dawlat, in the year 328 (A. D. 939-40). He possessed great information in astronomy and the philosophical sciences, and, as he surpassed in philology and epistolary composition all his contemporaries, he was called the second Jdhiz (vol. II. p. 405). (As a vizir) he exercised unbounded authority and great influence. Ibn Abbad (vol. I. p. 212) received the surname of as-Sdhib (the companion) from the fact of his being the constant companion and follower of Ibn al-Amid. The abilities of Ibn al-Amid as an epistolary writer were of the highest order, and alh-Thaalibi (vol. II. p. 129) said, on this subject, in his Yatima, that epistolary writing began with Abd al-Hamid (vol. II. p. 173) and finished with Ibn al-Amid. The Sdhib Ibn Abbad having made a journey to Baghdad, was asked by Ibn al-Amtd, on his return, how he found that city: ...
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