While shaving the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid (d. 809) in the bathhouse, a barber impertinently professed his love for the ruler’s daughter and asked to marry her. Astounded at the barber’s ...

Harun al-Rashid, the great eighth-century caliph himself ... when a Mongol army under the warlord Hulagu broke through, killed the last Abbasid caliph and razed the city. “Oh seekers of news about ...

Maridah bint Shabib (Arabic: ماردة بنت شبيب, d. 820s) was the favourite Umm walad of Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid and mother of eighth Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tasim. [2] Quick Facts Maridah bint Shabib ...

When the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid suffered from sleeplessness, which was all too often, he did what any sensible caliph would do: he summoned Masrur, his favourite executioner. As readers of The ...

During the Abbasid Caliphate (AD750 -1258), Baghdad ... It was created by Caliph Harun Al-Rashid (ruled AD754 -775) and his son Al-Ma'mun (ruled AD813 - 833). It had a big library and even an ...

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It coincides with the exchange of embassies between the emperor Charlemagne and the Abbasid caliph, Harun al-Rashid. Among the gifts from Harun was an actual elephant called Abu al ‘Abbas ...

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