The reigns of the caliph Harun al-Rashid and his successor al-Ma'mun have long been viewed as the golden age of the medieval Islamic caliphate. Yet how did chroniclers represent this crucial period?
In his suite at the Savoy Hotel, swarthy Prince Haroun-al-Raschid Abbasi, 23, descendant of Bagdad’s Caliphs, and heir to the fabulously wealthy throne of Bahawalpur in the Punjab, idly leafed ...
On September 25, the Malaysian student complained of sexual harassment allegedly against Professor Harun ar Rashid of the ...
Mosque and hospital of DivriÄŸi in modern day Turkey. It was built in the 13th century and you can still visit its remains today. During the Abbasid Caliphate (AD750 -1258), Baghdad became the ...
PUTRAJAYA: Two former followers of the "Tuhan Harun" cult escaped the gallows after the Federal Court here commuted their ...
The 30 days that the US gave Israel to get more aid into its north Gaza siege zone have now expired.
When Al Jazeera launched from the Qatari capital, Doha, on Friday, November 1, 1996, it was the first independent news channel in the Arab world. Media in the Arab world, till then, was ...