Du You
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Du You (Chinese: 杜佑 pinyin: Dù Yòu; Wade-Giles: Tu Yu, 735-812) was a scholar, historian and prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, who had devoted 36 years to the compilation of the Tongdian, a historical encyclopedia with 200 sections, on collection of laws, regulations and general events from ancient times till his own times. He was born to an official family in what's now Xi'an, Shaanxi, almost 18 years before the abruptly rebellion of An Lushan.
He was a client of Wei Yuanfu (韦元甫), and "a political thinker on a grand scale"; comparable to Ibn Khaldun. While working in Wei's staff for the military government of Huainan, in 766 CE he began the Tongdian.[1]
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- ^ Hoyland, Seeing Islam as Others Saw It, p. 244 from Twitchett, Official History under the T'ang, 104-7
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