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The campaign lasted until August 222/837 when Bàbak’s capital at al-Budhdh was taken by storm by al-Afshìn’s army. Bàbak himself was subsequently captured and taken to Samarra where he was cruelly executed in Safar 223/January 838. 8 There is no indication of who the author might have been. -Ó. Yùsofì, ‘Bàbak Korramì’ in Encyclopaedia Iranica. 7 Al-ˇabarì, Ta"rìkh, iii, 1171–1179, 1187–1194, 1195–1228. Other, much shorter, accounts are to be found in al-Ya'qùbì, Ta"rìkh, Leiden, 1883, ii, 578–579 and alMas'ùdì, Murùj al-Dhahab, Beirut, 1973, vii, 123–127.
127 n. 351. 37 Both al-Ya'qùbì, Ta"rìkh, ii, 580–582 and al-Mas'ùdì, Murùj, vii, 134–135, note the importance of al-Afshìn’s role. 38 Al-ˇabarì, Ta"rìkh, iii, 1236. 39 He is, in short, a hands-on general, not wildly heroic, but calm and competent. In keeping with this image, he is allowed very little direct speech in comparison with characters like Ashinàs or 'Amr b. 40 The most interesting and ambiguous portrayal in the narrative is 'Amr b. al-Óàrith al-Farghànì, an Iranian noble serving in alMu'taßim’s army.
It could be argued that the main object of jihàd was no longer to conquer the Dàr al-˙arb but to establish the authority and legitimacy of the leader in the Islamic community. 83 In this context, note El-Hibri’s comments about the generally negative and critical view of the Turkish military found in the Arabic sources of the third/ninth century, Islamic Historiography, 208–215. This page intentionally left blank A NEW TEXT ON ISMAILISM AT THE SAMANID COURT Patricia Crone (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) Luke Treadwell (Oxford) In his Àdàb al-mulùk, a book of advice for kings, the famous littérateur al-Tha'àlibì (d.