Harun al-Rashid

...breaks into the palace and finds Bakhamra, who has just been jilted by Hadi and so reveals his scheme to Harun. Harun locates Hadi just as he is about to bring his unwilling bride to bed, and fights with him. He is captured by Hadi's guards and...

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...as he prepares to finish Haroun, Ahmad and Ali interfere, forcing him to flee. But a spear thrown into his back stops him, and he dies in a burning tent; Haroun, Sheherazade, their friends and the loyal subjects celebrate victory. It was...

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Tahir advanced on Baghdad and defeated a force sent against him. In Mecca, Dawud ibn Isa reminded worshippers that al-Amin had destroyed Harun ar Rashid's succession pledges and led them in swearing allegiance to al-Mamun. Dawud then went to...

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...Gottowt) works in the company of his daughter (Olga Belajeff). The museum hires the poet to write up a back-story for his wax models of Harun al-Rashid (Emil Jannings), Ivan the Terrible (Conrad Veidt), and Jack the Ripper (Werner Krauss) in...

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...and that his father, Yahya ibn Khalid, had gold tiles on the wall of his mansion. Harun became upset one trip around Baghdad, and, whenever he passed an impressive house or mansion, they told him it belonged to the Barmakids. Al Fadhl...

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...violently painful headaches. He successfully treated Harun al-Rashid and in gratitude the caliph made him physician-in-chief, a post he held onto until his death in 801 C.E. Jibril ibn Bukhtishu was the son of Bukhtishu II, who served the...

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Like his father, al-Mustarshid, ar-Rashid made another failed attempt at independence from Seljuk Turks. To avenge his father's death, he insulted the Sultan's envoy who came to demand a heavy largess, incited the mob to plunder his palace,...

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...either isolated and under pressure and surveillance or in exile and in prison...A number of Caliphs gave him a hard time and finally Harun al-Rashid sent him to exile in Basra and then to Baghdad, where he was sent to and held in the dark and...

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...and Yahya chose al-Waqidi. Al-Waqidi then followed the caliph back to Baghdad where he lived thereafter. At the time of his death he was qadi of the western side of Baghdad. Al-Waqidi was a tireless collector of traditions and the...

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...and opportunities; some pursued wild game, others translations of Greek philosophy. Some were strict and pious, others drank and recited poetry. Harun al-Rashid, best known from "A Thousand and One Nights," did them all together. Jerusalem...

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