Abbasid Caliphate. Raqqa (Syria). temp. Harun al-Rashid H 170-193. Harun al- rashid and 'Isa ibn aban.
Fals AE

20 mm, 1,72 g

Legends in three lines and in outer margin / Legends in three lines and in outer margin.

good very fine

Savage 349. A-311. (R). Bronze fulus, al-Raqqa mint, occasional dated issues between 181 and 250 are all R.

Harun al-Rashid (148–193 H) was the fifth Abbasid Caliph. His epithet "al-Rashid" translates to "the Orthodox", "the Just", "the Upright", or "the Rightly-Guided". Al-Rashid ruled from 786 to 809, during the peak of the Islamic Golden Age. He established the legendary library Bayt al-Hikma ("House of Wisdom") in Baghdad in present-day Iraq, and during his rule Baghdad began to flourish as a center of knowledge, culture and trade. During his rule, the family of Barmakids, which played a deciding role in establishing the Abbasid Caliphate, declined gradually. In 796, he moved his court and government to Raqqa in present-day Syria. Also, Abu Musa ʿĪsā b. Abān was an early Sunni Islamic scholar who followed the Hanafi madhhab. Although none of his own works have survived to today, he was quoted extensively by early Hanafi scholars such as al-Jassas in regards to his views on Hanafi usul al-fiqh. Having studied under Abu Hanifa's student, Muhammad al-Shaybani, ibn Abān's views on the sources of law can be assumed to be representative of Abu Hanifa's. Ref:Assuyuti, Tarikh Al Khulafa. Audun Holme, Geometry: Our Cultural Heritage p. 150. Bedir, Murtaza, Islamic Law and Society. 9 (3): 285–311. From the Tareq Hani collection.