خلاصه ماشینی:
The wazir generally went to Court only on the days of audience, which at the beginning of the century were Mondays and Thursdays7• On these occasions one of the four Secretariat chiefs used to ride to the palace with him8• · There he had a special·house set apart for him, where the courtiers paid their official call on him until he was sum• moned to the Caliph.
Hilftl as• Sabi, in his " History of the W azirs " mentions the most prominent Chancellors of the 4th/10th century and divides them into : (a) Wazirs of the Abhasid dynasty and the Kuttab (clerks) of the Dailamite period5• Thus even Gauhar, at the conquest of Egypt, refused in the begin• ning the title of Wazir to Ja'far ibn al-Fadl since he was not the Wazir of the Caliph6• To the Fatimids, at first, the name itself was apparently too profane ; their highest official was the Qadhi.
A clever general, Al-Hasan ibn Makhlad, was, for the first time, appointed Wazir of the Caliph al-Mu'tamid, but he was deposed in 27218862• On the other hand we find the W azirs of the Sarnanids and the Buwayyids active alike as the head of the army and as the chief of the Chancery3• Even so distin• guished a man of letters as Sahib had to lead an expedition when Wazir4• The decline in the dignity of the Wazir, like the decline in morals, is amply evidenced by the fact that the irritable Buwayyid Mu'izz-ud-Dawiah in 341/952 condemned at Baghdad his Wazir Al-Muhallabi, a member of the Omay• yad aristocracy, to 150 stripes and imprisonment5• But this indignity notwithstanding, he took him back as Wazir.