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Remembers the life and achievements of the Ottoman sultan Suleiman, who ruled for nearly fifty years during the sixteenth century

Product Description: The name of Harun al-Rashid still conjures up visions of the fabulous Orient. But the caliph of the "Thousand and One Nights" was no mere figure of legend. Son of a Yemeni slave who manoeuvred him onto the throne after murdering his elder brother, he reigned for nearly a quarter of a century to become the most celebrated caliph of the Abbasid dynasty...read more