New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

POLITICIAN

Harun al-Rashid

766 - 809

Photo of Harun al-Rashid

Icon of person Harun al-Rashid

Abu Ja'far Harun ibn Muhammad al-Mahdi (Arabic: أَبُو جَعْفَر هَارُون ٱبْنِ مُحَمَّد ٱلْمَهْدِيّ, romanized: Abū Ja'far Hārūn ibn Muḥammad al-Mahdī) or simply Harun ibn al-Mahdi (Arabic: هَارُون ٱبْنِ ٱلْمَهْدِيّ; c. 763 or 766 – 24 March 809), famously known as Harun al-Rashid (Arabic: هَارُون ٱلرَّشِيد, romanized: Hārūn ar-Rashīd), was the fifth Abbasid caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate, reigning from September 786 until his death in March 809. His reign is traditionally regarded to be the beginning of the Islamic Golden Age. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harun al-Rashid has received more than 2,383,472 page views. His biography is available in 77 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 75 in 2019). Harun al-Rashid is the 214th most popular politician (down from 192nd in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Iran and the 5th most popular Iranian Politician.

Harun al-Rashid was the fifth caliph of the Abbasid dynasty and is most famous for his patronage of learning and the arts.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 77.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 77

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Harun al-Rashids by language


Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Harun al-Rashid ranks 214 out of 15,577Before him are Mehmed VI, Yuri Andropov, Tomyris, Brutus the Younger, Xi Jinping, and Ferdinand I of Austria. After him are Ho Chi Minh, Ferdinand II of Aragon, Hosni Mubarak, Napoleon II, Paul I of Russia, and Harald V of Norway.

Most Popular Politicians in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings

Contemporaries

Among people born in 766, Harun al-Rashid ranks 1After him is Zubaidah bint Ja`far. Among people deceased in 809, Harun al-Rashid ranks 1After him are Ludger, Aureolus of Aragon, and Ōtomo no Otomaro.

Others Born in 766

Go to all Rankings

Others Deceased in 809

Go to all Rankings

In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Harun al-Rashid ranks 9 out of 528Before him are Al-Ghazali (1058), Cyrus the Great (-600), Xerxes I (-519), Darius III (-380), Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919), and Ruhollah Khomeini (1902). After him are Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi (865), Ismail I (1487), Jabir ibn Hayyan (721), Esther (-600), Hassan-i Sabbah (1050), and Cambyses II (-550).

Others born in Iran

Go to all Rankings

Among POLITICIANS In Iran

Among politicians born in Iran, Harun al-Rashid ranks 5Before him are Cyrus the Great (-600), Xerxes I (-519), Darius III (-380), and Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919). After him are Cambyses II (-550), Malik-Shah I (1055), Ali Khamenei (1939), Nader Shah (1688), Tahmasp I (1514), Nizam al-Mulk (1018), and Khosrow I (501).