Prelude to the Generals: A Study of Some Aspects of the Reign of the Eighth ... - Osman Sayyid Ahmad Ismail Al-Bili, ʻUthmān Sayyid Aḥmad Ismāʻīl Bīlī - Google Books

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The son of Al-Rashid of The Arabian Nights and a great grandson of Al-Mansur, founder of Baghdad and the architect of the Abbasid state, Al-Mu'tasim was destined to succeed to the caliphate. Inheriting a troubled and fragmented empire, Al-Mu'tasim was to…