logo

EbookBell.com

Most ebook files are in PDF format, so you can easily read them using various software such as Foxit Reader or directly on the Google Chrome browser.
Some ebook files are released by publishers in other formats such as .awz, .mobi, .epub, .fb2, etc. You may need to install specific software to read these formats on mobile/PC, such as Calibre.

Please read the tutorial at this link:  https://ebookbell.com/faq 


We offer FREE conversion to the popular formats you request; however, this may take some time. Therefore, right after payment, please email us, and we will try to provide the service as quickly as possible.


For some exceptional file formats or broken links (if any), please refrain from opening any disputes. Instead, email us first, and we will try to assist within a maximum of 6 hours.

EbookBell Team

Harun Alrashid The Life And Legacy Of The Abbasid Caliph During The Islamic Golden Age Charles River Editors

  • SKU: BELL-47510852
Harun Alrashid The Life And Legacy Of The Abbasid Caliph During The Islamic Golden Age Charles River Editors
$ 31.00 $ 45.00 (-31%)

4.8

34 reviews

Harun Alrashid The Life And Legacy Of The Abbasid Caliph During The Islamic Golden Age Charles River Editors instant download after payment.

Publisher: Charles River Editors
File Extension: EPUB
File size: 1.7 MB
Pages: 51
Author: Charles River Editors
ISBN: 9781092955911, 1092955917
Language: English
Year: 2019

Product desciption

Harun Alrashid The Life And Legacy Of The Abbasid Caliph During The Islamic Golden Age Charles River Editors by Charles River Editors 9781092955911, 1092955917 instant download after payment.

*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 Dynasty for good.
The reputation of Harun al-Rashid is a controversial one over 1,000 years later. Although historians are often loathe to admit it, they understand that history, like other social and cultural subjects, is subject to the opinions and influences of the society in which it was written, and for centuries, numerous cultures in the Western world (primarily Europe, Australasia, North America, and sometimes Latin and South America) insisted that Islamic societies could not possess the intellectual progress and discourse Western society attributed to itself. According to Amira Bennison, “It was a commonplace of the European imperial age that the Islamic world was intellectually backward and that Muslims not only could not have produced the Enlightenment and Industrial Evolution but also required European tutelage.” In short, European intellectuals believed Muslims, due to their religious, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds, lacked the capacity to be progressive – as determined by European standards – and were thus intellectually and culturally backwards.
This interpretation of Islamic culture and society transcended intellectual barriers and seeped into the history and literature produced by scholars of the Western world, and in time, Harun al-Rashid became the figure through which

Related Products