He was a Persian vizier of the Arab Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid, succeeding his father (Yahya ibn Khalid) in that position. He was a member of the influential Barmakid family, formerly Buddhist leaders of the Nava Vihara monastery
Along with the rest of the Barmakids, he was executed in 803 at the orders of Harun al-Rashid. It is said that his execution was for allegedly having had an affair with Harun's sister Abbasa
But please keep that a secret from SJW or they will go ape just like with pocahontas
>But please keep that a secret from SJW or they will go ape just like with pocahontas I don't understand why you think SJWs would care about this
Zachary Nelson
I think you know fully well why but you want to derail my thread
Kayden Martinez
Not much of a thread if only I've posted in it.
Austin Taylor
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Joseph Watson
Everyone already knew he's (very loosely) based on a real person.
Personally, I don't buy the affair story because other members of his family were executed at the same time which makes me think the alternate theory - that the Barmakids were embezzling from the Calif is far more likely.
Ryan Jackson
>Be born into an affluent family in a relatively rich country in 800 AD >Still end up executed bad rng, what can you do
Jackson Russell
Well, I'm new and I don't see the significance either.
Besides, you can't really derail a thread that isn't really going anywhere.
Also, in 1001 Nights, the archetypal Moorish sorcerer is often given the name Jaffar as an homage so it's arguably not meant to be a direct representation of the historical figure.
Hunter Green
Anyone else feel Jafar was a better leader than the Sultan? I think its fairly obvious while the Sultan is playing with his models he's doing the real administrative work in Agrabah. And the city seems fairly prosperous.
David Brooks
>the city seems fairly prosperous. >we are literally presented with poverty striken children in the first 10 minutes
Hunter Morris
That's common knowledge OP
Jeremiah Clark
We are shown crippling poverty, crumbling buildings and brutal street justice to show that Agrabah is collapsing under the Sultan's rule due to Jafar's manipulation of the Sultan
Andrew Young
As appose to any other city in that time period? Every city at that time had those issues. Hell, cities today we see doing well always as some level of poverty.
Charles Barnes
except the city is still as poor in the tv series
Brody Fisher
>It is said that his execution was for allegedly having had an affair with Harun's sister Abbasa
No that's a latter day tradition when the court life of Harun al-Rashid had become romanticized and become the subject of folk lore. The real reasons were probably related to the internal dysfunction power struggles within the Abbasid Court.
The Barmakids were just too powerful. Haroun had them purged probably because of that.
>Barmakids were embezzling from the Calif is far more likely.
This was the norm in those days.
Gabriel Sanchez
Do you have any idea how obscenely wealthy the dynasties of the Silk Road were? The Sultan sits at the crossroads of civilization, oversseing trade from Rome, India, China, and Africa. Akbar I had a fortune equivalent to $21 trillion dollars
And the houses are made of mud and sticks. They're never gonna look good
Based Motherfucking Jafar who was at least in his late 50s when he chained up 15 year old Princess Jasmine, dressed her in a red sex slave outfit, knocked her to the grown for disrespecting him (while forcing her own father to watch the physical abuse ) and made a wish to force Princess Jasmine to fall desperately in love with him in order to turn her into his own personal play thing.
To an extent sure, but there still would have been limits to how much corruption would be tolerated. It also occurs to me that the Barmakids couldn't have been that powerful given how easily most of them were arrested and executed.
Isaiah Butler
Not to mention they send every guard in the city after one dude who stole some bread and they couldn't catch him.
Andrew Myers
I'm pretry sure aladdin isn't wanted simply for stealing bread
Evan Martin
>He was a Persian Jon Jafari is Persian too. It all makes sense now.
