Al-Baladhuri
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Al-Baladhuri
Abbasid-era Muslim historian (820-892)
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Lived 820–892, aged 72
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He mapped the early Islamic conquests in real time—or close to it. Writing in 9th-century Baghdad, al-Baladhuri compiled the routes, battles, and terms of surrender that built an empire, drawing on travelers' accounts and court records while the memory was still sharp.
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Ahmad ibn Yahya ibn Jabir al-Baladhuri died in 892 or 893, a historian whose proximity to power shaped his access. He spent most of his life in Baghdad, where he held sway at the court of the caliph al-Mutawakkil. He traveled through Syria and Iraq, gathering material on the ground. What emerged were major works of history—chronicles that traced how territories fell and populations converted in the decades after Muhammad. His method was patient accumulation: he collected the facts others might forget, then set them in order.
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In the correspondence which ensued, Muhammad informed Hajjaj of what he had done, and solicited advice respecting the future. Letters were written every three days.
— also in Elliot and Dowson, Vol. I, pp. 120-21.
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Muhammad, son of Kasim then went to Nirun, the inhabitants of which place had already sent two Samanis, or priests, of their town to Hajjaj to treat for peace.
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Then Muhammad, son of Kasim, went to old Brahmanabad, two parasangs f rom Mansura, which town indeed did not then exist, its site being a forest.
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Muhammad then marched towards Alrur and Baghrur.
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