Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Ja'far ibn Yahya Barmaki, Jafar al-Barmaki (Persian: جعفر بن یحیی برمکی, Arabic: جعفر بن يحيى, ja`far bin yaḥyā) (767–803) was the son of a Persian vizier (Yahya ibn Khalid) of the Arab Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid and from whom he inherited that position. He was a member of the influential Barmakid family, formerly Buddhist leaders of the Nava Vihara monastery. He was beheaded in 803 for allegedly having had an affair with Harun al-Rashid's sister Abbasa, although historical sources remain unclear about the real cause of Ja'far's death and the fall of the Barmakids.He had a reputation as a patron of the sciences, and did much to introduce Indian science into Baghdad. He was credited with convincing the caliph to open a paper mill in Baghdad, the secret of papermaking having been obtained from Chinese prisoners at the Battle of Talas (in present day Kyrgyzstan) in 751."@en }
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- Jafar_ibn_Yahya abstract "Ja'far ibn Yahya Barmaki, Jafar al-Barmaki (Persian: جعفر بن یحیی برمکی, Arabic: جعفر بن يحيى, ja`far bin yaḥyā) (767–803) was the son of a Persian vizier (Yahya ibn Khalid) of the Arab Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid and from whom he inherited that position. He was a member of the influential Barmakid family, formerly Buddhist leaders of the Nava Vihara monastery. He was beheaded in 803 for allegedly having had an affair with Harun al-Rashid's sister Abbasa, although historical sources remain unclear about the real cause of Ja'far's death and the fall of the Barmakids.He had a reputation as a patron of the sciences, and did much to introduce Indian science into Baghdad. He was credited with convincing the caliph to open a paper mill in Baghdad, the secret of papermaking having been obtained from Chinese prisoners at the Battle of Talas (in present day Kyrgyzstan) in 751.".