Harun al rashid

Caliph: A successor of Muhammad as spiritual and temporal leader of the Muslims.

The Abbassid Caliphate ruled from Baghdad and was considered the Islamic Golden Age, from 750 to 1258, fostering great cultural and scientific growth.

Harold Lamb is the author of the Faateh Haroon Ul Rasheed. It is an Urdu version of the English book. Haroon Ul Rasheed was a famous Abbassid Khalifa.

The Abbasid Caliphate was an Arabic dynasty that ruled over much of the Muslim world for over 500 years.

Abu Ja'far Harun ibn Muhammad al-Mahdi or simply Harun ibn al-Mahdi, famously known as Harun al-Rashid was the fifth Abbasid Caliph who ruled during the golden age of Islam, he was a pious, warrior and philosopher-King. Harun established the legendary library Bayt al-Hikma ("House of Wisdom") in Baghdad in present-day Iraq, and during his rule Baghdad began to flourish as a world center of knowledge, culture, and trade. The splendor of his court reached far and wide, that the King of the…

Charlemagne (French for Charles the Great, Carolus Magnus, or Carlus Magnus; German Karl der Grosse). The name given by later generations to Charles, King of the Franks, first sovereign of the Christian Empire of the West; born 2 April, 742; died at Aachen, 28 January, 814. At the time of Charles’ birth, his father, Pepin […]

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