Abu Tahir as-Silafi on Islamic culture and adab in Bab al-Abwab Shirwan and Arran
https://doi.org/10.31162/2618-9569-2018-11-2-405-425
Abstract
The biographical dictionary by Abu Tahir as-Silafi under the title “Mu`jam as-safar” (Dictionary of the travels) has been introduced by the Ukrainian Arabic scholar of Daghestani origin Ziya Saidov. The rich and hitherto underexplored data on the history of the Northern Caucasus was used in his PhD Thesis, however not extensively. Then only the first volume of the biographical work of As-Silafi was available to him. Some information used by Dr Saidov originate from the works of later Muslim authors, in the first instance al-’Askalani, Ibn al-Sabuni, Ibn al-Fuvati and al-Zahabi. The present article mostly provides additional information to the broad picture of the Islamic religious life in the Eastern Caucasus in the 11th - 12th centuries, to which mostly contributed Professor Amri R. Shikhsaidov, Dr Z. Saidov and the present writer.
About the Author
Alikber K. Alikberov
Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Cand. Sci. (Hist.), Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Center for Central Asian, Caucasian and Volga-Urals Studies
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