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<p><i>The Caliph’s Splendor</i> is a revelation: a history of a civilization we barely know that had a profound effect on our own culture.</p> <p>While the West declined following the collapse of the Roman Empire, a new Arab civilization arose to the east, reaching an early peak in Baghdad under the caliph Harun al-Rashid. Harun is the legendary caliph of The Thousand and One Nights, but his actual court was nearly as magnificent as the fictional one. In The Caliph’s Splendor, Benson Bobrick eloquently tells the little-known and remarkable story of Harun’s rise to power and his rivalries with the neighboring Byzantines and the new Frankish kingdom under the leadership of Charlemagne.</p> <p>When Harun came to power, Islam stretched from the Atlantic to India. The Islamic empire was the mightiest on earth and the largest ever seen. Although Islam spread largely through war, its cultural achievements were immense. Harun’s court at Baghdad outshone the independent Islamic emirate in Spain and all the courts of Europe, for that matter. In Baghdad, great works from Greece and Rome were preserved and studied, and new learning enhanced civilization. Over the following centuries Arab and P

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Author

Benson Bobrick [Bobrick, Benson]

Publisher

Simon & Schuster, Incorporated

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781416567639

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Political Science, Religion

Rating

3.52 / 5 (96 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14