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		for "Harun Al-Rashid and the Age of One Thousand and One Nights" -- or look for it in your favorite library.
		Harun once again led his troops, although by this time he was ill and suffering from abdominal pain.
		In 786 Harun became Caliph, succeeding his brother Musa al-Hadi, who had ruled for only one year following the death of their father Caliph Mahdi, the third Abbasid caliph.
	www.newsscan.com /cgi-bin/findit_view?table=honorary_subscriber&id=462 (454 words)

	Harun al-Rashid
		Harun al-Rashid, "Harun the Orthodox", the fifth of the Abbasid caliphs of Bagdad, and the second son of the third caliph Mahdi.
		Rashid owed his succession to the throne to the prudence and sagacity of Yahya bin Khalid the Barmecide, his secretary, whom on his accession he appointed his lieutenant and grand vizier.
		Harun is best known to Western readers as the hero of many of the stories in the Arabian Nights; and in Arabic literature he is the central figure of numberless anecdotes and humorous stories.
	www.nndb.com /people/849/000092573 (526 words)

	Harun al-Rashid Biography / Biography of Harun al-Rashid Biography
		Harun al-Rashid (766-809) was the fifth caliph of the Abbasid dynasty.
		Harun al-Rashid was born at Reyy near Teheran in 766 (or perhaps 763), the third son of the third Abbasid caliph, Mohammed al-Mahdi.
		Harun al-Rashid Biography / Biography of Harun al-Rashid Biography
	www.bookrags.com /biography-harun-al-rashid (245 words)

	AllRefer.com - Harun al-Rashid (Middle Eastern History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Yahya, a Barmakid, had aided Harun in obtaining the caliphate, and he and his sons were in high favor until 798, when the caliph threw them in prison and confiscated their land; the reasons for this are not known, but it was probably a result of an extended intrigue by the Arab group at court.
		Harun's empire included all SW Asia and the northern part of Africa, but by the end of his caliphate much of Africa had withdrawn from all but nominal obedience.
		Harun was a munificent patron of letters and of arts, and under him Baghdad was at its apogee.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/H/HarunalR.html (380 words)

	Nights Details 1
		The family was imprisoned in AD 803 and Giafar was executed on January 29th 803 by Rashid who, according to a rumour of the time, was envious that Giafar, with whom he had had a homosexual relationship, had fallen in love with and produced a child by Harun's sister 'Abbasah.
		The name of Harun al-Rashid is still revered and commemorated throughout the Arab world.
		Rashid's sidekick in many of the stories, the grand visier Giafar (or his wazir Ja'afar or Jiafir) was also a historical character and a member of the Barmecide family.
	www.crock11.freeserve.co.uk /11-harun.htm (778 words)

	Science, civilization and society
		Harun al-Rashid was the son of the third Abbasid caliph al-Mahdi.
		Harun al-Rashid (Harun ar-Rashid ibn Muhammad al-Mahdi ibn al-Mansur al-'Abbasi)
		Harun tried to resolve the issue by giving Iraq and the western provinces to al-Hamin, his son from Zubaydah, and the eastern provinces to his son al-Ma'mun, the son of a Persian slave girl.
	www.incois.gov.in /Tutor/harunalrashid.html (482 words)

	IslamiCity.com - Education
		The early 'Abbasids were also fortunate in the caliber of their caliphs, especially after Harun al-Rashid came to the caliphate in 786.
		As the Arab chronicles put it, Harun al-Rashid ruled when the world was young, a felicitous description of what in later times has come to be called the Golden Age of Islam.
		His reign is now the most famous in the annals of the 'Abbasids- partly because of the fictional role given him in The Thousand and One Nights (portions of which probably date from his reign), but also because his reign and those of his immediate successors marked the high point of the 'Abbasid period.
	www.islamicity.com /education/ihame?Destination=/education/ihame/7.asp (881 words)

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		Harun al-Rashïd went too far in practicing pleasures; his palace was a theater for all kinds of prostitution and dissoluteness; it was rarely void of dancing and singing parties and drinking wine; therefore, his government did not represent Islam.
		Harun al-Rashïd grew up among the songstresses, for there was a large number of female musicians and songstresses, for example, there was in his palace three hundred beautiful women who played musical instruments and sang.
		Harun al-Rashïd had nothing of reverential fear and faith; he was ignoble and clinging to his lusts and pleasures.
	www.rafed.net /books/other-lang/imam-ridha/55.html (4100 words)

	AlShindagah Online
		Harun Al Rashid was not an ordinary man. Long before, his daring raids into territories still under the rule of Rome carried him to the doors of Constantinople even before his father, Al Mahdi, nominated him as his Crown Prince.
		It was in those days that the famous Harun Al Rashid, the fifth Abbasid Caliph, was watching a huge cloud on the balcony of his palace as it passed over Baghdad, expecting rain to come down any moment.
		Harun insisted to appoint Al Mamoun who had shown a very early wisdom and who was, even in his youth, a well-known scholar, while Al Amin was famous for being very reckless.
	www.alshindagah.com /julaug2003/woman53.html (1566 words)

	AL-RASHID
		Under Harun al-Rashid the Abbasid caliphate reached the height of its power and his court at Baghdad was famous for its splendour.
		Harun became the fifth caliph of the Abbasid dynasty in 786.
		Harun was a patron of the arts and of learning.
	www.hyperhistory.com /online_n2/people_n2/ppersons4_n2/harun.html (87 words)

	Master: Chapter 28
		Harun al-Rashid is a character from the Arabian Nights.
		In the tales the Caliph (Harun al-Rashid) wanders around Baghdad dressed as a beggar and accompanied by a poet, a musician, and an executioner.
		Skabichevsky's "Literary Memoirs" describe fires that ravaged Petersburg in 1862.
	cr.middlebury.edu /public/russian/Bulgakov/public_html/C28.html (248 words)

	Shiites of Iraq Online Extra @ National Geographic Magazine
		Harun al-Rashid's son, al-Mamun established the Bayt al-Hikmah (House of Wisdom) in Baghdad, a distinguished institution where Greek works were translated into Arabic.
		The city's opulent palaces and rich bazaars were one of the backdrops for Scheherazade, Aladdin, and Ali Baba's adventures, and the disguised caliph who appeared from time to time was none other than Harun al-Rashid, the fifth ruler of the Abbasid caliphate.
		Al-Mansur, the second caliph of the Abbasids, established Baghdad in 762 A.D., and by Harun al-Rashid's rule in about 800 A.D., the city flourished.
	magma.nationalgeographic.com /ngm/0406/feature1/online_extra.html (926 words)

	Harun al'Rashid
		Although Harun al'Rashid ruled during the Golden Age of Arabia, after and indeed during his rule the empire began to disintegrate, despite the advances he had promoted in medicine and education.
		After the capitol moved from Damascus to Baghdad in 762, the Abbasid caliphs "reigned as semi-divine beings who represented God on earth and had total control over their subjects." [15] Ceremonies performed in court culminated during the rule of Harun al'Rashid, when visitors or supplicants had to prostrate themselves before they even saw the caliph.
		Second son of caliph al'Mahdi, the third Abassid caliph of the Arab empire, Harun al'Rashid grew up in a violent age.
	www.hyperhistory.net /apwh/bios/b1alrashidharun.htm (1549 words)

	H.R.H. Sultan Harun al-Rashid (1886-1893)
		09.24.1886 - Datu Harun al-Rashid was crowned Sultan of Sulu by the Manila governor-general Juan Terrero in a Christian investiture in Malacanang
	www.bangsamoro.info /royalty/royalty_1886.html (86 words)

	Harun Al-Rashid - HBKXX1001
		Harun al-Rashid, the legendary caliph portrayed in The Thousand and One Nights, reigned for a quarter of a century, his empire spreading over south-west Asia and into north Africa.
		A symbol of the fabled Orient, Harun al-Rashid, the caliph portrayed in The Thousand and One Nights, is seen living grandly in his palace in Baghdad, surrounded by his wives, concubines, musicians and learned men, but is not merely a legendary figure.
		Harun Al-Rashid..and the world of the thousand and one nights...
	www.hilalplaza.com /index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=494 (356 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : A Career at Raqqa
		In the eyes of the 10th-century historian al-Tabari, the 13th-century geographer Yaqut al-Hamwi and—those scholars wrote—of Harun al-Rashid himself, the victory was the greatest of many in a career that marked both the zenith of Abbasid power and the beginning of its gradual decline.
		In 806, the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid and his troops rode west from north-central Syria to conquer the key Byzantine city of Heradea, in southwestern Anatolia.
		Toueir's investigations have illuminated not only the architectural designs but also the masonry techniques and decorative motifs that Harun al-Rashid preferred.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/199505/a.career.at.raqqa.htm (2105 words)

	Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts: Greek Influences
		The third generation of this family, Jibra'il ibn Bakhtishu`, was physician to Harun al-Rashid and to the two succeeding caliphs in Baghdad.
		The caliphs al-Mansur, Harun al-Rashid (of the Thousand and One Nights fame), and al-Ma'mun are noted for their patronage of learning and medicine.
		His son was also called to Baghdad in 787 (171 H), where he remained until his death in 801, serving as physician to the caliph Harun al-Rashid.
	www.nlm.nih.gov /exhibition/islamic_medical/islamic_03.html (638 words)

	Shia News Articles: Islam Imam Musa Al Kazim (A.S)
		When Harun al-Rashid placed Imam al-Kazim (A.S.) in a prison, one of the spies, who kept a watchful eye on him, heard the Imam (A.S.) saying, "O my Lord, You know that I had been asking you to spare me time to devote myself to Your service.
		Imam al-Kazim (A.S.), on the orders of Harun al-Rashid, was transferred from one prison to another.
		Imam Musa ibn Ja'far al-Kazim(A.S.), the seventh holy immaculate successor of the Prophet (phuhandhp) was confined in prisons for 14 years by the ruling Abbasid caliphs and finally martyred by poisoning in the prison of Baghdad on 25th Rajab, 183 A.H., by the tyrant and cruel Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid.
	www.shianews.com /hi/articles/islam/0000311.php (2160 words)

	Infallibilty of Imam Reza A.S - AhlulBayt Discussion Forum
		Imam Reza(A.S.) left medina to make the pilgrimage in the year in which Harun al-Rashid,the then ruling Abbasid caliph made the pilgrimage.
		Sina`n) said to Abul-Hasan al-Reza(A.S.) during the days of Harun: 'Surely, you have made yourself famous through this matter and your sitting in the assembly of your father, while the sword of Harun is dripping blood (i.e.
		Harun has narrated: "While Harun al-Rashïd was delivering a speech in the Mosque of Medina, I saw 'Ali (al-Reza(A.S.)), and he said to me: 'You will see that I and he (Harun al-Rashïd) will be buried in one house.'
	www.shiachat.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=5049 (1176 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : An Elephant for Charlemagne
		And so it was that Harun al-Rashid, who was also interested in negotiation, decided to send Charlemagne a very special gift—a gift, he said in his note to the Imperial Council, that few in Europe had seen since Hannibal and his Carthaginians marched across the Alps.
		In the year 798, the Imperial Council of Baghdad, Abbasid capital of the Islamic Empire, received and initialed a personal request from Harun al-Rashid, whom history remembers as the caliph who opened Islam's Golden Age.
		Finally, stretching along the southern Mediterranean shores, and blanketing the whole of what we know today as the Middle East, as well as Spain, was a gigantic state administered from the new city of Baghdad by the Abbasid Dynasty of the Islamic Empire.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/197702/an.elephant.for.charlemagne.htm (1252 words)

	Imam Musa al-Kazem, Imamat, Harun al-Rashid (Abbasid Caliph), Kazmain, Shia Ismaili
		Imam Musa Ibn Ja'afar(AS) showered his generosity on many of his relatives even when he knew that some of them were envious of him and conspired with the ruler of the time Harun al-Rashid.
		Harun immediately called the head of the prison and told him to release the Imam and give him thirty thousand Dirhams.
		It was in that year that Al-Rashid went on the pilgrimage, and when he arrived in Madina, he arrested the Imam Musa Ibn Ja'afar, brought him to Baghdad and imprisoned him under the care of al-Sindi Ibn Shahik.
	www.ezsoftech.com /islamic/infallible9a.asp (1874 words)

	Harun al-Rashid - Outcyclopedia
		Caliph Harun al-Rashid as depicted by artist Monro Orr in an early 20th century edition of The Arabian Nights Tales.
		For further reading see Harun al-Rashid and the World of the Thousand and One Nights, by Andre Clot, translated by John Howe, published by New Amsterdam Books, 1990.
		Name: Harun al-Rashid (aka Haroun ar-Rashid, Harun al-Raschid or Haroon al Rasheed)
	outcyclopedia.0catch.com /al_rashid.html (748 words)

	Jawaharlal Nehru: Baghdad and Harun al-Rashid
		The Abbaside Empire was at the height of its outward glory during the reign of Haruna al-Rashid from 786 to 809 A.C. Embassies came to Harun from the Emperor of China and Emperor Charlemagne in the West.
		Soon after the death of Harun al-Rashid trouble came to the Arab Empire.
		Baghdad and the Abbaside dominions were far in advance of the Europe of those days, except for Arab Spain, in all the arts of government, in trade, and in the development of learning.
	www.globalwebpost.com /farooqm/study_res/nehru/abbasid.html (1984 words)

	G litter
		In 1997, I met CH Red Hawk Harun Al Rashid, a magnificant Saluki with BISS winnings and a nice temperament. When studying his pedigree, I saw he was an offspring to Baklava's Ah San Min going back to the Jen Araby lines known for their great quality in movement.
		Before I decided to use Harun, I actually had decided years later for a son to his litter brother Red Hawks Behouroz El Hor who became Worldwinner in 2003. Nevertheless, I used Harun as he was my pick and I would do it again.
		I have to especially thank Marita and Harun his owner for the help they gave with this mating which resulted in a most splendid and very succesful G litter.
	www.el-ubaid.nl /g-litter.htm (635 words)

	Harun - Procrastination: Harun Yahya
		Harun Hassan worked for Associated Press in Somalia from 1992-1998 and for the
		A reply to a Harun Yahya denial of the book 'The Holocaust Hoax'
		The author, who writes under the pen-name HARUN YAHYA, was born in Ankara in I got suspicious when I found out that Harun Yahya was not a scientist.
	www.spiderarea.com /q/harun.htm (207 words)

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		Abbasid Caliphate Alt 30: The 'Abbasid Caliphate in Equilibrium: The Caliphates of Musa Al-Hadi and Harun Al-Rashid A.D. by Bosworth, Clifford Edmund
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	The Arabian Nights
		The Caliph Harun al-Rashid lay one night between two slave-girls, one from Al-Medinah and the other from Cufa and the Cufite rubbed his hands, whilst the Medinite rubbed his feet and made his concern [FN#115] stand up.
		The Caliph Harun al-Rashid once slept with three slave-girls, a Meccan, a Medinite and an Irakite.
		The Medinah girl put her hand to his yard and handled it, whereupon it rose and the Meccan sprang up and drew it to herself.
	xahlee.org /p/arabian_nights/ue70.html (318 words)

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