the ledger of connections
The Connections of Al-Mu'tasim
8th Abbasid Caliph. (r. 833–842) Every person recorded alongside Al-Mu'tasim in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.
Family & Connections
People recorded alongside Al-Mu'tasim in the ledgers of the archive.
- Parents
- Harun al-Rashid, Maridah bint Shabib
- Children
- Al-Mutawakkil, Al-Wathiq, Al-Musta'in
- Siblings
- Al-Amin, al-Maʾmun, Al-Qasim ibn Harun al-Rashid, Ahmed Al-Sabti, Abu ʿIsa Muhammad ibn Harun al-Rashid
Alive in the same years
Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 796 CE to 842 CE.
Medieval era
Mahavira
800 CE – 875 CE
Mathematician
Medieval era
Adi Shankara
788 CE – 820 CE
An Indian philosopher and theologian who consolidated the doctrine of Advaita Vedanta and revitalized Sanskrit scholasticism.
Medieval era
Al-Mutawakkil
822 CE – December 11, 861 CE
10th Abbasid caliph (822–861, r. 847–861)
Medieval era
Charlemagne
April 2, 748 CE – January 28, 814 CE
King of the Franks crowned first Holy Roman Emperor, father of Europe
Medieval era
Harun al-Rashid
March 7, 766 CE – March 24, 809 CE
5th Abbasid caliph (r. 786–809)
Medieval era
Al-Khwarizmi
c. 750 CE – 846 CE
Mathematician of Baghdad who gave the world algebra and algorithms
Medieval era
Al-Jahiz
775 CE – 868 CE
Arabic writer (776–869)
Medieval era
Fatima al-Fihri
800 CE – 880 CE
Legendary founder of the al-Qarawiyyin mosque
Medieval era
Offa of Mercia
c. 800 CE – July 29, 796 CE
King of Mercia
Medieval era
Kenneth MacAlpin
810 CE – February 8, 858 CE
King of the Picts
Medieval era
Egbert of Wessex
771 CE – 839 CE
King of Wessex
Medieval era
Louis the Pious
April 16, 778 CE – June 20, 840 CE
King of the Franks