Hilal al-Sabi'

Abu l -Husayn ibn Hilal ibn Ibrahim al- Sabi Muhassin ' (Arabic: أبو الحسين هلال بن محسن بن إبراهيم الصابئ, DMG Abū l - Ḥusayn Hilal b Muḥassin Ibrāhīm b aṣ - Sabi ʾ, .. * 969 in Harran, † 1056 Baghdad ) was an Iraqi writer, historian and bureaucrat from the late buyidischen time. He came from a family sabierischen from Harran, but resigned in 1012 to Islam. He first worked under the Emir Samsam ad - Dawla and then Fakhr al -Mulk the vizier of Baha ' ad - Dawla. He died in 1056 in Baghdad, where he spent practically his whole life.

Working

Hilal al - Sabi ' has written several books, but many of them are no longer available.

• Rule and regulations of the Abbasid court ( رسوم دار الجلافة Rusum Dar al- chilāfa )

Is his most famous book, a guide to bureaucracy and government affairs. Despite its practical orientation to the management activity, the book contains a number of statistics, anecdotes and historical explanations that are very useful to the historian as the source.

• The Book of viziers (Arabic: كتاب الوزراء Kitaab al - wuzarā ')

Only the beginning of this work has been handed down, this part deals with the Caliph al - Muqtadir.

• The history of the Hilal as- Sabi ' (Arabic: تاريخ ابي الحسين هلال بن المحسن بن ابراهيم الصابي Tuarikh Abī l -Husayn ibn al- Hilal ibn Ibrāhīm al- Sabi Muhassin )

This work is also not all available, the traditional parts of handle the spätbuyidische time.