Al-Ma'mun era

The Era of Al-Ma'mun is one of the most prominent references on the reign of the Abbasid Caliph Al-Ma'mun ibn Harun al-Rashid, an era that marked the peak of Islamic civilization's prosperity in politics, economics, science, and literature. Historian Ahmed Farid Rifai recounts the details of the struggle for the caliphate between Al-Ma'mun and his brother Al-Amin, and how Al-Ma'mun succeeded in un...