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Harun Al Rashid
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Harun Al-Rashid and the World of the Thousand and One Nights
Harun al-Rashid, the legendary caliph portrayed in The Thousand and One Nights, was the son of a Yemenite slave who cleared Harun's path to power, very probably by poisoning her eldest son. Harun reigned for a quarter of a century, his empire spreading over south-west Asia and into north Africa. He waged war on the Byzantine Empire, and dealt ruthlessly with the religious and social insurrections which threatened his kingdom, executing almost the entire Barmakid family when they threatened to become too powerful. As well as being a ruthless soldier and politician Harun was also a great patron of the arts, and highly esteemed by Charlemagne. He turned Baghdad into a brilliant centre of cultur...
Harun Al-Rashid
*Includes pictures *Includes medieval accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Like many historical figures, Harun al-Rashid's biography has become part reality and part myth. A real individual and the fourth caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate, Harun al-Rashid is best known to many individuals because of his role in famous literature like One Thousand and One Nights, not necessarily because of his policy decisions. This is unusual because Harun al-Rashid was perhaps the most influential of the Abbasid caliphs due to his role in bringing economic prosperity, destroying one of the most powerful Islamic families of the 9th century CE, and ending the Abbasid Dynast...
Harum Al Rashid
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Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography
The history of the early Abbasid Caliphate has long been studied as a factual or interpretive synthesis of various accounts preserved in the medieval Islamic chronicles. Tayeb El-Hibri s book breaks with the traditional approach, applying a literary-critical reading to examine the lives of the caliphs. By focusing on the reigns of Harun al-Rashid and his successors, the study demonstrates how the various historical accounts were not in fact intended as faithful portraits of the past, but as allusive devices used to shed light on controversial religious, political and social issues of the period. The analysis also reveals how the exercise of decoding Islamic historigraphy, through an investigation of the narrative strategies and thematic motifs used in the chronicles, can uncover new layers of meaning and even identify the early narrators. This is an important book which represents a landmark in the field of early Islamic historiography.
The Caliph
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The Road to Muhammad
?Inilah pemimpin, bermalam-malam terjaga, sedang umatnya tidur di ranjang raja-raja. Kala shalat, pelupuknya tergenang air mata. Duhai, belum pernah insan melahirkan putra semacam dia!??Dr. Muhammad Iqbalÿ Sepanjang sejarah, nyanyian kerinduan telah digemakan untuk sosok agung ini. Betapa tidak, dialah jalan menuju Allah Swt. Tak mungkin makhluk sampai pada cinta Tuhan, kecuali melalui Sang Utusan. Tak mungkin dahaga ruhani terpuaskan, bila tak menetes air mata kerinduan. Cinta Nabi Saw. adalah fitrah paling sejati. Ia adalah tonggak penopang agama Ilahi. Tetapi, kini suara nurani itu tertutupi. Berbagai cara dilakukan untuk menjauhkan orang dari cinta Nabi. Sejarah fiktif beredar. Riwayat ...
The Caliph's Sister
It was quite unsuitable for a man from outside the family to be admitted to the company of a young woman, but Harun found a way to arrange things; he decided to marry them in what the French call a "mariage blanc." As he explained to Ja'far, "You see her only in my company, your body never approaches hers and you have no conjugal relations with her. You may thus share our evenings of pleasure without risk." Ja'far accepted and swore solemnly never to stay with his young wife alone. The charismatic Ja'far controlled many of the levers of power while 'Abbasa was a strong-willed woman whose beauty was second to none. And the close friendship between Harun and Ja'far spawned jealousies among the caliph's entourage. Nor did Zubayda, Harun's favorite Hashemite wife, like Ja'far. He had been a tutor to al-Ma'mun, the son of a Persian slave girl, her son's rival.
