ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā b. Dāʾūd b. al-Jarrāḥ - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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van Berkel, Maaike
Leiden
Brill
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ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā b. Dāʾūd b. al-Jarrāḥ (245-334/859-946) was an ʿAbbāsid scribe (kātib) from a famous secretarial family, the Banū l-Jarrāḥ. He was twice wazīr under the caliph al-Muqtadir (r. 295-320/908-32) and has gone down in history as a paragon of excellent and virtuous secretaryship. 1. Background ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā was born into a family of Persian descent, which had settled at Dayr Qunnā, a town built around a large Nestorian monastery , on the eastern shore of the Tigris, about ninety