Search results
al-Mu'tasim. Abū Isḥāq Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Rashīd ( Arabic: أبو إسحاق محمد بن هارون الرشيد; October 796 – 5 January 842), better known by his regnal name al-Muʿtaṣim biʾllāh ( المعتصم بالله, lit. 'He who seeks refuge in God' ), was the eighth Abbasid caliph, ruling from 833 until his death ...
Dec 14, 2016 · A Story of Mu’tasim and the Muslim Woman. This incident happened during the time of the time when Islamic Caliph was present in the year 837 AD. One Muslim sister was attacked by the Romans in the Roman city. She was abused and locked up for no reason. Frightened and alone she called out the name of the Caliph ‘Oh Mu’tasim’.
One of the Abbasid "warrior-caliphs", al-Mu'tasim may have not had the intellectual calibre of his predecessor al-Ma'mun, but as the founder of a new capital, and of a new, militarized regime that formed the prototype of Islamic governance for centuries, he had a disproportionate impact on history. The article has been under development in ...
‘The Approach to Al-Mu’tasim’ (‘El acercamiento a Almotásim’), written in 1935, is the starting point of Borges's mature fictions. Borges saw it in this light: [It] is both a hoax and a ...
- Steven Boldy
Plot summary. The story is a review of The Conversation with the Man Called Al-Mu'tasim: A Game of Shifting Mirrors, the second edition of an earlier work, The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim. Written by Mir Bahadur Ali, an Indian lawyer, and published in 1934, the second edition is described by the narrator as inferior to the first edition, published ...
Summary. ‘The Approach to Al-Mu’tasim’ (‘El acercamiento a Almotásim’), written in 1935, is the starting point of Borges's mature fictions. Borges saw it in this light: [It] is both a hoax and a pseudo-essay. It purports to be a review of a book published originally in Bombay three years earlier.
Al-Mu'tasim. Abu Ishaq al-Mu'tasim ibn Harun (أبو إسحاق المعتصم بن هارون , 794 – January 5, 842) was an Abbasid caliph (833 - 842). He succeeded his half-brother al-Ma'mun, who nominated him as heir. The third son of Harun al-Rashid who became caliph, he suppressed revolts in several provinces, captured Ankyra from the ...
