Iraq / Turkey: The Abbasid caliph al- Maʾmūn and his soldiers being greeted by a man with a tray of fruit. From the Hamse of Ataullah bin Yahya Atai (d. 1044 AH / 1634 CE)

Abū Jaʿfar Abdullāh al-Māʾmūn ibn Harūn (also spelled Almamon, Al-Maymun and el-Mâmoûn, Arabic ابوجعفر عبدالله المأمون) (September 13, 786 – August 9, 833) (المأمون) was an Abbasid caliph who reigned from 813 until his death in 833.

Illumination from the Ḫamse (quintet) of the Ottoman Turkish poet and scholar ʿAṭāʾullāh bin Yaḥyá ʿAṭāʾī (d. 1044 AH / 1634 CE).

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