The Caliphs Splendor: Islam and the West in the Golden Age of Baghdad, Bobrick, Benson. Published by Simon & Schuster, 2012. 227pp. with index. Quarter plum over white boards. Very light toning and otherwise volume is in fine, unread condition and housed in a fine jacket.
The story of Harun al-Rashid, the celebrated caliph from The Thousand and One Nights, who ruled the Islamic world when its power was at a peak in the late eighth and early ninth centuries and when the Arab world influenced Western Christian culture.
