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al-Nāṭiḳ bi’l-Ḥaḳḳ
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, the honorific given by the ʿAbbāsid caliph al-Amīn [q.v.] to his son Mūsā in 194/809, when he designated him as heir presumptive in place of al-Maʾmūn [q.v.], whereas their father Hārūn al-Ras̲h̲īd had specified that the inheritance of the caliphate should pass to al-Maʾmūn and had taken the precaution of sending a circular letter on this subject to all the provinces and of attaching to the kisāʾ of the Kaʿba a copy of this, for the tearing-down of which al-Faḍl b. al-Rabīʾ [q.v.] sent a ḥād̲j̲ib . It was in effect this vizier of al-Amīn’s who led the caliph into taking this me…

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Pellat, Ch., “al-Nāṭiḳ bi’l-Ḥaḳḳ”, in: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Edited by: P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, W.P. Heinrichs. Consulted online on 28 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_5851>
First published online: 2012
First print edition: ISBN: 9789004161214, 1960-2007



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