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Barid

The barīd (Arabic: بريد, often translated as "the postal service") was the state-run courier service of the Umayyad and later Abbasid Caliphates. A major institution in the early Islamic states, the barid was not only responsible for the overland delivery of official correspondence throughout the empire, but it additionally functioned as a domestic…

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related to References · 138
Barid → Abd, Abd Allah, Abdallah, Abu, Abu Ja'far Muhammad, Adam, Akkach, Al-Tabari, Al-Ṭabarī, Albany, American Oriental Society, An Encyclopedia, Apr, Arabic, Arabs, Boston, Brill, Buldan, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
related to Etymology · 19
Barid → Arabic, Babyl, Babylonian, Barīd, Byzantines, Egypt Post, Frye, It, Late Latin, Maghrib, Miṣriyy, Modern Standard Arabic, Morocco, Persian, Persian Sassanids, Poste Maroc, Richard, The, The Egyptian Barīd
related to 9th–11th centuries · 10
Barid → Abbasid Caliphate, After, Alp Arslan, Buyids, Muslim, Samanids, Seljuq, Some, The, Transoxiana
related to Abbasids · 10
Barid → Abbasid, Abbasid Revolution, Barmakid Ja'far, Following, Itakh, Mansur, The, Turki, Under, Yahya
related to background · 10
Barid → Achaemenid Empire, Antiquity, Byzantines, Islamic, Middle East, Postal, Ptolemaic Egypt, Roman, Sassanids, The Muslim
related to Umayyads · 9
Barid → Abd, Malik, Marwan, Mu'awiya, Mu'awiya's, Second Fitna, The, The Umayyads, Umayyad
related to Surveillance · 8
Barid → Any, Besides, In, Islamic, Postmasters, The, They, This
related to Correspondence and travel · 5
Barid → Ibn Khurradadhbih, Its, The, This, To
related to Mamluks · 5
Barid → Baybars, Egypt, In, Levant, Mamluk

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isbn service new caliph empire government history state ibn leiden brill postal officials correspondence arabic agents ed courier abbasid throughout

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Baridrelated to 9th–11th centuriesAfter0.60section
Baridrelated to 9th–11th centuriesAbbasid Caliphate0.60section
Baridrelated to 9th–11th centuriesBuyids0.60section
Baridrelated to 9th–11th centuriesThe0.60section
Baridrelated to 9th–11th centuriesSeljuq0.60section
Baridrelated to 9th–11th centuriesAlp Arslan0.60section
Baridrelated to 9th–11th centuriesSome0.60section
Baridrelated to 9th–11th centuriesMuslim0.60section
Baridrelated to 9th–11th centuriesSamanids0.60section
Baridrelated to 9th–11th centuriesTransoxiana0.60section
Baridrelated to AbbasidsFollowing0.60section
Baridrelated to AbbasidsAbbasid Revolution0.60section

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