Abū al‐Qāsim Ismā ˓īl Ibn ˓Abbād Ibn al‐ ˓Abbās Ibn ˓Abbād Ibn Ahmad Ibn Idrīs, also known as Kāfi al‐Kufāt, and al‐Ṣāḥib, was a famous vizier and man of letters of the Buwayhid period. There is disagreement about his place and date of birth, but he was probably born at Iṣṭakhr on 16 Dhū'l‐qa ˓da 326/14 September 938. His family included high dignitaries, and his own father had been a kātib (clerk) and then vizier, or minister of state, under the Buwayhid Prince Rukn al‐Dawla (r. 35/946–366/976).
Ibn ˓Abbād himself became the disciple and secretary of Abū'l‐Faḍl Ibn al‐ ˓Amīd (d. 360/970), the father of the Buwayhid vizier Abū'l‐Fatḥ Ibn al‐ ˓Amīd (b. 337/948–9). His close relationship to the Buwayhid amīrs (princes) is said to have begun in 347/958, when he accompanied Mu'ayyid al‐Dawla (reigned 366/976–373/983) to Baghdad as a clerk. He was later confirmed in this office when Mu'ayyid al‐Dawla became governor of Isfahan. Ibn ˓Abbād's career took a more significant turn when he was...
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Matar, Z. (2008). Ibn ˓Abbād. In: Selin, H. (eds) Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4425-0_9228
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