He himself was a broad-minded man, so the people of perfection used to gather in his court and participate in scholarly discussions and debates. Ibn Qutafi, describing the characteristics of his caliphate, wrote that his reign was the best,
The government had great prestige, it had great prosperity and great virtues, all the scholars, jurists, judges, scribes who gathered in its court…
Haroon Rashid’s caliphate can be called the era of the Abbasid government. He did a lot of work in his time to strengthen the government, establish justice and welfare of the people, historians wrote that his constitution was to change clothes in the streets of…
These circumstances created suspicion in the heart of Haroon Rasheed, as if the signs of decline were visible on Aftab Iqbal of Bramka, so Haroon Rasheed killed Jafar and put Yahya and Fazl behind bars and confiscated their palaces and assets. It is also a tragic event in…
He was also very steadfast in other religious beliefs and ideas. It is written in Tarikh-e-Khilafah that he used to pray 100 rak’ats daily except for illness during his caliphate. His prayers were not made up, if he fought for one year. In the second year, he would be…
Haroon Rashid has been a great and glorious caliph in the Abbasid Empire. During his caliphate, the wealth of the Abbasids had reached its peak in all aspects of knowledge, culture and politics. In some respects, he was glorified by his forefathers
Despite being a great…
Towards the end of his reign, he tried to take matters into his own hands, imprisoning the Barmakid family (Barmakian) and killing his favorite Jafar. But they did not plan well for the future.
In the absence of a proper system of inheritance, he promised to give…
Towards the end of his reign, he tried to take matters into his own hands, imprisoning the Barmakid family (Barmakian) and killing his favorite Jafar. But they did not plan well for the future.
In the absence of a proper system of inheritance, he promised to give…
we know that in the last ten years of the Khilafah era, his favorite city was Raqqa, in Syria, near the northwestern border with the Khilafah’s Byzantine Empire, north of Baghdad.
Archaeologists have now discovered not only palaces but also factories in…
Harun al-Rashid’s reign stretched from Central Asia to Libya. About this period, Tennyson wrote, “A good time, a good place because it was the time of the rise of the good Aaron Al-Rashid.”
But how good was that era? The idea of this era…
The Abbasid Caliphate had always been under the protection of the Bani Hashim and this was the reason why Haroon, like the Mahdi, was afraid of Imam Musa Kazim in his time and had to spend most of his life in captivity. Aaron also feared that his popularity among the people…