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Also Known As Abū al-ʿAbbās ʿAbd Allāh al-Maʾmūn ibn al-Rashīd
Born 786 • Baghdad • Iraq
Died August 833 (aged 47) • Tarsus • Turkey
Title / Office caliph (813-833), Caliphate
ʿAlī: Arabic calligraphy
ʿAlī
Muslim caliph
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Muʿāwiyah I
Umayyad caliph
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Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ashʿarī
Muslim theologian
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al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī
Muslim scholar
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ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān
Muslim caliph
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Abū Bakr
Muslim caliph
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ʿUmar I
Muslim caliph
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Wāṣil ibn ʿAṭāʾ
Muslim theologian
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al-Hādī
ʿAbbāsid caliph
ʿAbd al-Malik: Dome of the Rock
ʿAbd al-Malik
Umayyad caliph
Arts and sciences under Hārūn al-Rashīd
Hārūn al-Rashīd
ʿAbbāsid caliph
Detail from the 1375 Catalan Atlas by Abraham Cresques showing Mansa Musa, king of Mali, seated on a throne holding a gold coin, with a Tuareg on camelback approaching.
Mūsā I of Mali
emperor of Mali
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al-Manṣūr
ʿAbbāsid caliph
Maḥmūd Ghāzān
Maḥmūd Ghāzān
Mongol ruler of Persia
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Abu al-Qāsim Maḥmūd ibn ʿUmar al-Zamakhsharī
Persian scholar
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Ibn al-Ashʿath
Arab general
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Qutaybah ibn Muslim
Arab general
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ʿUmar II
Umayyad caliph
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Sayf al-Dawlah
Ḥamdānid ruler
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Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik
Umayyad caliph