Harun al-Rashid and the times of "One Thousand and One Nights"

Thanks to the collection of Arab fairy tales" Thousand and one night, Harun Ar-Rashid (763-809) was hardly the most famous ruler of the Muslim world. However, the personality of Harun and the real events that took place in his reign, as a rule, remained in the shadow of his fabulous prototype. The book of French Oriental Deda Andre CLO is designed to show the readers the true face of the legendary caliph. If the majority of readers know Harun Ar-Rashida as a fused and capricious sovereign, enjoying life surrounded by concrete and musicians in his Baghdad Palace, then the reality is completely different: since childhood, Harun was forced to fight for life and power. The younger son of the Khalifa Mutasima and the Yemen Slave, he hardly survived on the board of his older brother. Having become caliph, Harun faced with many difficulties: inherited from the ancestors he got unhealthy disputes between the descendants of the Prophet Mohammed, who attracted to