caa a22 4500 386350817 CHVBK 20180307111829.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198904 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0035869X00109232 doi S0035869X00109232 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0035869X00109232 Meisami Julie Scott Masʽūdī on love and the fall of the Barmakids [Elektronische Daten] [Julie Scott Meisami] Midway through his account of the fortunes of the Barmakids in his Murūj aldhahab wa-ma'ādin al-jawhar, al-Masʽūdī (d. 956) introduces a debate on love said to have taken place in the majlis of Yaḥyā ibn Khālid al-Barmakī. Yaḥyā, described as a man of great learning devoted to philosophical discussion, invited the theologians who frequented his salon, and who had previously debated on a variety of philosophical and theological topics, "to speak of love ['ishq], without disputing, each presenting whatever occurs to him as it comes to his mind”. A number of definitions are offered, followed by additional comments by Mas'ūdī; the whole constitutes a substantial digression which intervenes between the depiction of the Barmakids at the height of their power and the account of their fall from favour. Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1989 Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland Cambridge University Press 121/2(1989-04), 252-277 0035-869X 121:2<252 1989 121 JRA https://doi.org/10.1017/S0035869X00109232 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0035869X00109232 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Meisami Julie Scott NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland Cambridge University Press 121/2(1989-04), 252-277 0035-869X 121:2<252 1989 121 JRA CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge