The Caliph's Heirs: Brothers at War: the Fall of Baghdad by Jurji Zaidan

The Caliph's Heirs: Brothers at War: the Fall of Baghdad

Novels of Islamic History in Translation

Jurji Zaidan with Michael Cooperson (Translator)

350 pages missing pub info (editions)

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It is 809 AD in Baghdad, the capital of the 'Abbasid Empire. The famed Caliph Harun al-Rashid has died. His successor, al-Amin, son of his Hashemite Arab wife, had promised the Caliph that he would appoint his half-brother al-Ma'mun, born to a sla...

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