the book in 925/6, who died in an unnatural way. As Abul-Faraj said in the foreword to his work, he included only those Tālibids who rebelled against the government and were killed, slaughtered, executed or poisoned, lived underground, fled or died in captivity. The work is a major source for the Umayyad and Abbāsid Alid uprisings and the main source for the Hashimite meeting that took place after the assassination of the Umayyad Caliph al-Walīd II in the village of al-Abwā' between Mecca and Medina. At this meeting, al-'Abdallah made the Hashimites pledge an oath of allegiance to his son Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya as the new Mahdi. Kitāb al-Imā'āš-šawā'ir'' () 'The Book of the Poet-slaves', a collection of accounts of poetic slaves of the Abbasid period. See also List of Arab scientists and scholars List of Iranian scientists and scholars Notes References Works cited 897 births 967 deaths 10th-century Arabic writers 10th-century biographers 10th-century historians from the Abbasid Caliphate 10th-century non-fiction writers Arab historians Arabic-language poets Persian Arabic-language poets Encyclopedists of the medieval Islamic world Writers from Isfahan Poets from the Abbasid Caliphate People of the Hamdanid emirate of Aleppo Sayf al-Dawla Zaydis Umayyad dynasty Musicians from the Abbasid Caliphate Buyid-period poets Historians under the Buyid dynasty 10th-century Shia Muslims