Abbasid Tales. Baghdad Caliphs and their Subjects

In this book, the abbasids, the second Khalifskaya dynasty, the same, to which Harun Ar-Rashid belonged to Harun.
A story about califa and their advisers - Vesira, about Princes and Governors, about beauties and diplomas, about merchants and thieves, about the wonderworkers and exaggeres - in general, about all those who after a few hundred years have become the characters of fairy tales" 1001 Nights", as well as about those who in "1001 night" did not hit.
Arabs are a good conversation appreciated high, compilation and directories were made up of such entertaining stories, from where it was always possible to borrow a story from the partition - "about Califa" or "about the associates of the Messenger of God", "about the distant countries"," About the famous bravers", "about lovers" or" about chess players" ... such bikes enjoyed tremendous success - and often penetrated the official history, where they were stacked, folded or not very, in chronological sequence.
The boundaries of the narrative covers twenty-three reigns - from 750 to the second half of the X century