Mu'tazili Islam Abū al-ʿAbbās Abd Allāh ibn Hārūn al-Maʾmūn ( Arabic : أبو العباس عبد الله بن هارون الرشيد , romanized : Abū al-ʿAbbās ʿAbd Allāh ibn Hārūn ar-Rashīd ; 14 September 786 – 9 August 833), better known by his regnal name al-Ma'mun ( Arabic : المأمون , romanized : al-Ma'mūn ...

2025年1月1日 · al-Maʾmūn (born 786, Baghdad—died August 833, Tarsus, Cilicia) 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.. Early years. The son of the celebrated caliph Hārūn ar-Rashīd and an Iranian concubine, al-Maʾmūn was born in 786, six months …

Mamun was the most intellectual of the Abbasid caliphs, espousing a rationalist view of Islam. He transformed the caliphal library, which his father had founded in Baghdad into a virtual...

Islam, major world religion promulgated by the Prophet Muhammad in Arabia in the 7th century ce. The Arabic term islām, literally “surrender,” illuminates the fundamental religious idea of Islam—that the believer (called a Muslim, from the active particle of islām) accepts surrender to …

Mamun and the Intellectual Blossoming of the Islamic World. Mamun was the caliph who was largely responsible for cultural expansion. An Arab historian states the following: "He looked for knowledge where it was evident, and thanks to the breadth of his conceptions and the power of his intelligence, he drew it from places where it was hidden.

He was a member of the third dynasty of the descendants of Muhammad who were caliphs of Islam. While his father ruled, al-Ma’mun was the governor of Khorasan. After al-Ma’mun was born his father had another son named al-Amin.

He may qualify as the greatest patron of philosophy and science in the history of Islam. The presence of non-Muslims at his court and their participation in scholarly and religious exchange is evidence that, despite what some have claimed to the contrary, Islam is not inevitably destructive of the cultural life of other religions.

Subsequently, Maʾmun was tutored by Fażl b. Sahl (d. 818), a Zoroastrian convert to Islam. Maʾmun and his guardian Fażl b. Sahl, as well as the vizier Fażl b. Rabiʿ (d. 822 or 24), were members of the caliph ’s entourage when in 808 Hārun marched his troops eastwards against Rāfeʿ b. Layṯ, the rebel in Transoxiana and Khorasan.

Abu ul-Abbas Abdallah ibn Harun al-Rashid (in Arabic: أبو العباس عبد الله بن هارون الرشيد, Abū al-ʿAbbās ʿAb d Allah ibn Hārūn ar-Rashīd; September 14, 786 – August 9, 833), known by his real name Al-Mamun was an Abbasid caliph, the seventh to bear the title, son of Harun al-Rashid, the intellectual caliph ...

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.