Al-Wathiq
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Abū Jaʿfar Hārūn ibn Muḥammad al-Wathiq bi'Llah
Gold dinar of al-Wathiq, minted in Baghdad in 843
Death of Caliph al-Wathiq, Mughal miniature from the Tarikh-I Alfi (1594)
Vathek
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Vathek is a Gothic novel written by William Beckford. It was composed in French beginning in 1782, and then translated into English by Reverend Samuel Henley in which form it was first published in 17
Al-Wathiq
…His very obscurity allowed William Beckford to present a heavily fictionalized version of al-Wathiq in his classic 18th-century Gothic fantasy novel Vathek, which Kennedy describes as "a fantastic tale of cruelty, dissipation and a search for the lost treasure of ancient kings, guarded by Iblis/Satan…
Title page of the 1786 edition
Vathek and Giaour, an illustration to William Beckford's Vathek in a late-18th to early–19th century illustration. Giaour is withstanding the angry and perilous glances of Vathek without the slightest emotion, while the courtiers fall prostrate with their faces on the ground.