Khalid ibn Barmak (705-782) was a member of the powerful persian Barmakids family. He played an important role in the formation of the Abbasid dynasty. He served as minister under the caliph As-Saffah until 775. The Barmakids, also called Barmecides, of Persian extraction, had originally been Buddhists, but shortly before the arrival of the Arabs, they had converted to Zoroastrianism. ... Abbasid provinces during the caliphate of Harun al-Rashid Abbasid (Arabic: العبّاسيّون AbbÄsÄ«yÅ«n) was the dynastic name generally given to the caliphs of Baghdad, the second of the two great Sunni dynasties of the Islamic empire, that overthrew the Umayyad caliphs. ... Caliph is the term or title for the Islamic leader of the Ummah, or community of Islam. ... Abu al-Abbas Abdullah ibn Muhammad as-Saffah (721 - 754) أبو العباس عبد الله بن Ù…Øمد السÙØ§Ø was the first Abbasid caliph. ...
Under the Caliphate of al-Mansur, he was involved in the founding of Baghdad, and protested the use of material from Ctesiphon to build the new city. He was appointed governor of Fars and of Tabaristan. Abu Jafar Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Mansur (712 - 775) (Arabic: ابو جعÙر عبدالله ابن Ù…Øمد المنصور) was the Abbasid Caliph who founded Baghdad in 762. ... Ctesiphon, 1932 Ctesiphon (Parthian: Tyspwn as well as Tisfun) is one of the great cities of ancient Mesopotamia and the capital of the Parthian Empire and its successor, the Sassanid Empire, for more than 800 years located in the ancient Iranian province of Khvarvaran. ... // Introduction Fars is one of the 30 provinces of Iran. ... Mazandaran (مازندران in Persian) is a province in northern Iran, bordering the Caspian Sea in the north. ...
Afterwards, his family gained more priviledge under the caliphate of al-Mahdi, with the help of Khalid's son Yahya ibn Khalid. Muhammad ibn Mansur al-Mahdi (ruled 775–785), was the third Abbasid Caliph. ...
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