Q. & A. 711 to 1707 with solved Papers css 1971 to date

5S i)huinu’l-Bari«id
The postal depamrtment. introduced into the Islamic Empire b^ Mti’a«0a’ was furthrher developed under Abdul Malik and his SH isors a”d perfect.rted under the Abbasids. Harun Rashid o^CCe zed the service thrlirough his tutor and counselor Yahya bin K| !. j the Barmakid. TPhere was a central office at Baghdad which re a.’JSahibu’l-Barid (the Postmaster-General) at Baghdad such of the refsports to the Caliph as he thought necessary ^”’”’g Other reports (whrtiich used to be already classified and sorted

1ie extent at the p provincial headquarters) were sent to the S° ned departments. The provincial postmasters sent separate concerning each a department of administration. In this way

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of distributing^ them to the various departments at the was facilitated. Ex.xtracts of important reports were made and
the file of the cem ntral office.
The central officc:e had very accurate postal itineraries of the WL | empire in which asall the stations were noted and the distances

1 °£ different statico ons carefully marked. The earliest Arab

g^ jpliers derived rrmuch help from these accurate postal dj irjes The Postma?aster-Genera! at the capital was one of the rr| inlportant officers s of the Caliph. Besides looking after the IK ’ ,a| Mail and supervrvising the various postal establishments, he .. Charge of a veiy(y elaborate espionage system in which the of the entire personnel of the whole department were
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|n this double cajapaciry, as the chief of the postal department
ne ^ of the esP(l pi°naSe system, the Postmaster was called , -y’j-Band wa’I-Akhhl«bar (Controller of the Post and intelligence S li.,.i He ^as not ononlv the Postmaster-General and Inspector-
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q s| of tspionage buout also the disect confidential agent of the Q , sahibu’l-Barid has.ad in his hands the appointment of the postal op,, P|s mill the provii-’inciai towns, their general, superintendence
a, . ’,» mfit of their salas aries.
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