The Caliph's Splendor: Islam and the West in the Golden Age of Baghdad by Benson Bobrick

The Caliph's Splendor: Islam and the West in the Golden Age of Baghdad

Benson Bobrick

304 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
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The story of Harun al-Rashid, the celebrated caliph from The Thousand and One Nights, who ruled the Islamic world when its power was at a peak in the late eighth and early ninth centuries and when the Arab world influenced Western Christian cultur...

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