Harun al-Rashid, Caliph · Caliph of the golden age

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Harun al-Rashidهارون الرشيد

Baghdad

The caliph of the Thousand and One Nights, when Baghdad was the richest city on earth.

He went on Hajj many times and led campaigns against Byzantium. His court gathered scholars, poets and physicians, and his wife Zubaydah built the pilgrim road to Makkah. He exchanged embassies with Charlemagne and died at Tus in 809.

What grew out of it?

His reign became the picture of the golden age in Muslim and world memory.

Who came before and after?

Al-HadiAl-Amin

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