Shahr-e Ray is the capital of Ray County, Tehran province, Iran. Formerly a distinct city, it has now been absorbed into the metropolitan area of Greater Tehran as the 20th district of municipal Tehra
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Abū Jaʿfar Hārūn ibn Muḥammad ar-Rashīd, or simply Hārūn ibn al-Mahdī, famously known as Hārūn al-Rashīd, was the fifth of the Abbasid caliphs, reigning from September 786 until his death in March 809
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…Amin Razi Harun al-Rashid, Abbasid caliph Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, Ash'ari, Theologian and Qur'an Exegete…
Gold dinar of Harun al-Rashid, (184 AH) 800 CE
A silver dirham minted in Madinat al-Salam (Baghdad) in 170 AH (AD 786). At the reverse, the inner marginal inscription says: "By order of the slave of God, Harun, Commander of the Faithful"
Harun al-Rashid, at left, receiving a delegation sent by Charlemagne to his court in Baghdad. 1864 painting by Julius Köckert.
Dinar of Harun 171 AH (AD 787–88), the early years of his reign