William Montgomery Watt
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Professor of Arabic and IslÄmic Studies, University of Edinburgh, 1964ā79. Author of Muhammad: Prophet and Statesman; Muslim Intellectual: A Study of al-GhazÄlÄ«; General Editor of IslÄmic Surveys.
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HÄrÅ«n al-RashÄ«d was the fifth caliph of the Abbasid dynasty (786ā809), who ruled the Islamic world at the zenith of its empire with a luxury in Baghdad memorialized in The Thousand and One Nights (The Arabian Nights Entertainment). HÄrÅ«n al-RashÄ«d was the son of al-MahdÄ«, the third Abbasid caliphā¦
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