Harun Al - Rashid and the World of the Thousad and One Nights
تاريخ النشر: 01/01/2005
الناشر: دار الساقي للطباعة والنشر
نبذة الناشر:A Symbol of the fabled Orient, Harun al-Rashid, the caliph portrayed in the thousand and one Nights, Where we see him living grandly in his palace in Baghdad, surrounded by his wives, his concubines, musicians, and learned men, is not merely a figure of legend He was the son of ...a Yemenite slave who cleared his path to power, very probably by poisoning the reigning caliph, her older son . Harun reigned for a quarter-century, and-was the most famous caliph of the Abbasid dynasty>
Through Arab chronicles, the author corrects our vision of Harun the Good' and gives a remarkable account of his development as a ruler. Though in Western countries he is remembered for the presents he sent to Charlmagne-notably the famous elephant, Abul Abbas-he was first and foremost a successful soldier who made war on the Byzantines. His empire was shaken by religious and social insurrections, and he did not shrink from annihiliating the Barmecides, a powerful family whose wealth and influence he finally found
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