Talk:Al-Mustansir Billah

message: this page does not line up with the link on al mus'tasim, caliph of baghdad
This entry apparently draws heavily on at least one written source, but no citations are given.  Can anyone find and credit the sources used?  --Dgilman 23:17, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Which manuscript? Yourlocallordandsavior (talk) 19:48, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Older comments

message: could someone remove the hijra dates?They're no help to anyone who is only aquainted with the gregorian calendar. 99.249.15.246 (talk) 01:39, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: And how about for Arabic enthusiasts or Arabic historians? Yourlocallordandsavior (talk) 16:51, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  hijra dates 

message: This Ismali Heritage site gives Billah's date of rule as (1036-95). The revised 10th edition of "History of the Arabs : from the earliest times to the present" from 2002 gives Billah's date of rule as (1035-94) (Hitti, p. 621-622). "A short history of the Fatimid Khalifate" from 1923 gives Billah's date of rule as (1035-95) (O'Leary, p. 193, 210). Right now I trust the Ismaili site date the most as it appears to be an Arabic site (forgive my ignorance) and that both Ismaili and O'Leary gives the same Arabic dates for his date of rule, of which I believe that both O'Leary's and Hitti's calculations are a simple date conversion error, as seen with the miscalculation of Ramathibodi I's reign in the Ayutthaya Kingdom from 1351 to 1350 due to a similar date conversion error (of which I'm familiar with). Anyone an expert that can help fill in the missing pieces? Yourlocallordandsavior (talk) 01:55, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Using this Islamic calendar calculation website, through a quick Google search, why does it give me July 8, 1029 instead of July 2, 1029 when I put in 16th Jumada II, 420 AH? I used three other sites, of which one also gives me July 2 while the other two gives me July 7. Yourlocallordandsavior (talk) 01:32, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe that presently, the Arabic dates that I've found are consistent enough to be accepted as the real dates. I just need to find out how to convert it. So far, I believe that you can trim down Billah's dates of rule from June/July 1036 to December 1094/January 1095. Can anyone help? Yourlocallordandsavior (talk) 19:52, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that the Islmaili site is legitimate enough, searching through book contexts, but I just found out it conflicts with the date provdied by this Turkish site. Yourlocallordandsavior (talk) 22:20, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Different dates of reign? 

message: Apparently nowadays Muslim people can decide to keep or remove these suffixes in their surnames for legal documents and other purposes, but I assume this to not be the case for historical figures? What's the proper convention for historical Muslim figures with an "al-" suffix in their surnames? Is it necessary to write it all the time or not? Yourlocallordandsavior (talk) 19:33, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  How do "al-" suffixes work for Muslim historical figures? 

message: Hello, @Contentofbook. A recent contribution that you made to this article has resulted in a harv-error. Please add the work that is labelled as "Basan 2010" in the proper format in the bibliography/work cited area of the article. Thank you! Thecowboygilbert -  (talk) ♥ 18:02, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sfn/Harv Error due to missing work in Bibliography