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At this Al – Rashid fell a laughing again and all the Barmecides rose and kissed the ground before him, saying, O Commander of the Faithful,
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It is told that Harun al-Rashid, in the days before he became jealous of the Barmecides, sent once for one of his guards, Salih by name, and said to him, O Sálih, go to Mansúr246 and say to him: ‘Thou owest us a thousand thousand dirhams and we require of thee immediate payment of this amount.’
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Caliph and the Lady Zubaydah I must differ in every point except the destruction of the Barmecides.
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For, indeed, the excellences of the Barmecides were past count nor can their virtues be committed to description, especially those of
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Yahya leave sending to his kinsmen of the Barmecides, till he had collected from them a great sum of money for Mansur.
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They call themselves Barámikah or Barmecides only to affect Persian origin.
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This tale, “full of the waters of the eye,” as Firdausi sings, is the massacre of the Barmecides; a story which has often been told and which cannot here be passed over in silence.
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Harun and his cousin-wife, as has been shown, were orthodox and even fanatical; but the Barmecides were strongly suspected of heretical leanings; and while the many — headed showed itself, as usual, violent, and ready to do battle about an
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The Persians, for reasons which will be explained in the terminal-Essay, show the greatest sympathy with the Barmecides; and abominate the Abbasides even more than the latter detested the Ommiades.
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The vizir who accompanies the Caliph was also a real person of the great family of the Barmecides.
Still Separate & Unequal Fredrickson, George M. 2005
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