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Al-Ma'mun was a pioneer of cartography having commissioned a world map from a large group of astronomers and geographers. The map is presently in an encyclopedia in Topkapi Sarai, a Museum in Istanbul. The map shows large parts of the Eurasian and African continents with recognizable coastlines and major seas.
Al-Maʾmūn was the seventh ʿAbbāsid caliph (813–833), known for his attempts to end sectarian rivalry in Islām and to impose upon his subjects a rationalist Muslim creed. The son of the celebrated caliph Hārūn ar-Rashīd and an Iranian concubine, al-Maʾmūn was born in 786, six months before his.
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Al-Ma'mun. Genealogic tree of the Abbasid family (Caliphs of Baghdad and Cairo). Abu Jafar al-Ma'mun ibn Harun (also spelled Almamon and el-Mâmoûn) (September 14, 786 - August 9, 833) (المأمون) was the seventh Abbasid caliph who reigned from 813 until his death in 833. He had been designated by his father, Harun al-Rashid to succeed ...
STEPHEN D. NORTON. Abu al-'Abbas Abdallah al-Ma'mun ibn al-Rashid786-833 Persian Caliph Al-Ma'mun was the seventh Abbasid caliph and a great patron of the sciences in the Islamic world. He established an influential scientific academy in Baghdad where Arab scholars made important contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and others fields.
al-Maʾmūn, (born 786, Baghdad, Iraq—died August 833, Tarsus, Cilicia), Seventh caliph (r. 813–833) of the ʿAbbāsid dynasty. He was the son of the celebrated Hārūn al-Rashīd and after his father’s death (809) defeated his brother al-Amīn in a civil war (813) to assume the caliphate. Attempting to reconcile Sunnite and Shīʿite ...
MA˒MUN, AL- (786–833)Abu 'l-˓Abbas ˓Abdallah al-Ma˒mun (r. 813–833) was the seventh caliph of the Abbasid Dynasty (750–1258). He came to power in the wake of Islam's fourth civil war and is best known for his theological interests and for instituting an inquisition, the Mihna, on the doctrine of the createdness of the Qur˒an.
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al-Ma'mun. Abū Al-Abbas Abdullāh al-Maʾmūn ibn Harūn (also spelled Almamon, Al-Maymun, Al-Ma’moon, [1] and el-Mâmoûn; 13 September 786 – 9 August 833) was an Abbasid caliph. He reigned from 813 until his death in 833. Al-Ma’mun was born on 13 September 786 AD in Baghdad. His father was Harun al-Rashid, who was an Abbasid caliph.
