- Al-
Khayzuran bint Atta (Arabic: الخيزران بنت عطاء, romanized: al-ḵayzurān bint ʿaṭāʾ) (died 789) was the wife of the
Abbasid Caliph Al-Mahdi and mother...
- with his mother. Al-Hadi was born in 764. His
father was al-Mahdi and al-
Khayzuran bint Atta was the
mother of both
caliphs Musa al-Hadi and
Harun al-Rashid...
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eastern region,
based in Ray. It was here that he fell in love with al-
Khayzuran (translates as "bamboo"), a
daughter of a
warlord in
Herat and had several...
- son of al-Mahdi, the
third Abbasid caliph (r. 775–785), and his wife al-
Khayzuran, who was a
woman of
strong and
independent personality who
greatly influenced...
- killed.
Viking attacks increase in
intensity over the
coming decades. Al-
Khayzuran,
widow of
former Abbasid caliph Al-Mahdi, dies,
leaving more of the effective...
-
nursed by Yahya's wife,
Zubayda bint Munir,
while al-Mahdi's wife, al-
Khayzuran,
nursed Yahya's
young son al-Fadl, who had been born a few days earlier...
-
illustrated by the
power struggle between the
Caliph Al-Hadi and his
mother Al-
Khayzuran, who
refused to live in
seclusion but
instead challenged the
power of...
- ibn Zayd’ûl-Alavī Ismā‘il ibn ʿAbd Allāh ‘Alī Zay****
Idrisids Sabīkah
Khayzurān Ali al-Ridha
Muhammed Hussein ʿAbd Allāh al-Hussayn Dā‘ī al-Kabīr Ibrāhim...
- her name is
given differently in
sources as
Sabika or
Durra (sometimes
Khayzuran). She
might have
belonged to the
family of
Maria al-Qibtiyya, a freed...
- girl of the
caliph al-Mahdī,
while Iṣbahānī
calls her
slave girl of al-
Khayzurān,
mother of Hārūn al-Rashīd. Isḥāq al-Nadīm
lists Abū al-‘Atāhiyah and...
