Harun al-Rashid was a whoremonger who got one of his sex slaves to tell him 1001 stories. Hilarity ensues.
Abbasid (Arabic: العبّاسيّون, Abbāsīyūn) is the dynastic name generally given to the caliph of Baghdad, the second of the two great Sunni dynasties of the Islamic empire, which overthrew the Umayyad caliphs from all but Spain and murdered the vast majority of Shi'as. Yes, the Sunnis, who got pissed at Ali and killed his followers, also had dynasties, but they weren't related to Muhammad, so they could claim that they were actually following the Qu'ran (even though they all had far more than four wives). It seized power in 750, when it defeated the Umayyads in battle, and flourished for two centuries, but slowly went into decline with the rise to power of the Turkish army it had created, the Mamluks. Within 150 years of gaining power across Iran they were forced to cede power to local dynasties who only nominally acknowledged their power and cede the Maghreb to independent Aghlabids. Their rule was finally ended in 1258, when Hulagu Khan, the Mongol conqueror, sacked Baghdad and established the installed Nouri al-Maliki as Prime Minister. While they continued to claim authority in religious matters from their base in Egypt, nobody actually listened to them, since Islam had been in apostasy since about two seconds after Muhammad died. Descendants of the Abbasids include the al-Abbasi tribe who live northeast of Tikrit in modern-day Iraq and are Sunni oppressors just like their ancestors.
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