Al-Ma'mun

Al-Ma'mun

Abu al-Abbas Abdallah ibn Harun al-Rashid (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-Maʾmūn), was the seventh Abbasid caliph, who reigned from 813 until his death in 833. He succeeded his half-brother al-Amin after a civil war, during which the cohesion of the Abbasid Caliphate was weakened by rebellions and the rise of local strongmen; much of his reign was consumed in pacification campaigns. Well educated and with a considerable interest in scholarship, al-Ma'mun promoted the Translation Movement, the flowering of learning and the sciences in Baghdad, and the publishing of al-Khwarizmi's book now known as "Algebra". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Al-Ma'mun has received more than 497,611 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia. Al-Ma'mun is the 717th most popular politician (up from 860th in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from Iraq (up from 24th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Iraqi Politician.