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Hārūn al-Rashīd

ʿAbbāsid caliph
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Also known as: Hārūn al-Rashīd, Hārūn al-Rashīd ibn Muḥammad al-Mahdī ibn al-Manṣūr al
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William Montgomery Watt
Professor of Arabic and Islāmic Studies, University of Edinburgh, 1964–79. Author of Muhammad: Prophet and Statesman; Muslim Intellectual: A Study of al-Ghazālī; General Editor of Islāmic Surveys.
William Montgomery Watt
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Hārūn al-Rashīd ibn Muḥammad al-Mahdī ibn al-Manṣūr al-ʿAbbāsī
Born:
February 766/March 763, Rayy, Iran
Died:
March 24, 809, Ṭūs (aged 43)
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Hārūn al-Rashīd (born February 766/March 763, Rayy, Iran—died March 24, 809, Ṭūs) was the fifth caliph of the ʿAbbāsid dynasty (786–809), who ruled Islam at the zenith of its empire with a luxury in Baghdad memorialized in The Thousand and One Nights (The Arabian Nights Entertainment). Hārūn al-Rashīd was the son of al-Mahdī, the third ʿAbbāsid caliph (ruled 775–785), and al-Khayzurān, a former slave girl from Yemen and a woman of strong personality who greatly influenced affairs of state in the reigns of her husband and sons. The elder prince, al-Hādī, was four when Hārūn was born. The princes were ...(100 of 1261 words)

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