Baghdad: The Golden Age (TRIH ep 378, part 3)
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In this episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine Harun al-Rashid and Baghdad at the height of the early Abbasid Caliphate. They contrast the mythic Baghdad of the Arabian Nights with surviving historical sources (Al-Yakoubi, Ibn Sarapion, Al-Tabari), sketch Harun's family and court — the powerful queen-mother (Al-Kaiziran), the influential Zubaydah, and the Barmakid vizier family (Yahya, Jafar) — and…
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- Islamic Golden Age (750)
- Viking Age (793)
- An Lushan Rebellion (755)
- Reign of Alfred the Great (871)
- Khmer Empire (Angkor) (802)
- Reign of Charlemagne (768)
- Abbasid Caliphate founded (750)
- Treaty of Verdun (843)
- Gunpowder developed in China (850)
- Reconquista (722)