Al-Mansur, by his political and military measures,…

October 775 CE

Al-Mansur, by his political and military measures, has firmly established the 'Abbasid caliphate.

Furthermore, he had arranged the succession in favor of his son, al-Mahdi, who at the former’s death in October 775 becomes the third 'Abbasid caliph.

Al-Mahdi has two sons, al-Hadi and Harun.

Harun, four years younger than al-Hadi, has as tutor Yahya ibn Khalid (the Barmakid), a loyal supporter of his mother al-Khayzuran, a formerly enslaved girl from Yemen and a woman of strong personality who greatly influences affairs of state in the reigns of her husband.

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Al-Mahdi View → Al-Mansur View → Harun al-Rashid View →

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Arab people View → Persian people View → Manicheanism View → Islam View → Muslims, Sunni View → Abbasid Caliphate (Baghdad) View →

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Islamic Golden Age View → Al-Muqanna, Revolt of View →

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