خلاصه ماشینی:
Any student who has closely studied the work of Tabari will have discovered how much· he relies upon reports emanating from Shi'ah sources, which may also account for the re• markable good information he has about the Bami Umayyah.
·For. in spite of being filled with animosity against the Umayyads, it is curious how the Shi'ahs, of all people, seem to have delighted in their history, although they all appear to have forgotten how much more they suffered under the rule of their cousins, the 'Abbasids, Al-Baladhuri has been long known as the author of the Kitab al-Futah.
In 1883, Ahlwardt published in lithography a small volume which from inner evidence he believed (what has since been prov• ed to be true) to be a portion of his monumental work Kitdb al-Ansdb ("The Book of Genealogies").
The pleasing type, good paper and ample vocalisation of proper names and poetry, followed by a complete index and critical notes in a separate volume, make the edition a monumental one for the Hebrew University, and we can look forward with confidence to the.
and the Durar al-Kaminah contain biographies of men whose works are to this day monuments of Islamic learning.
This is lost, but in the second volume under review, Ash'ar Awldd al-Khu• lafa', we have, almost complete, the poems of 'Abbasi princes, among which figure prominently 'Abd Allah son of al-Mu'tazz (pp, 114-296), Ibrahim son of al-Mahdi.
In the Ash'ar, I have carefully studied several of the poems of Ibn al-Mu'tazz as the edition of his Diu·an, mentioned above, is very unsatisfactory.