Abbasa bint Sulayman
{{Short description|Abbasid princess and wife of Harun al-Rashid}}
{{Infobox royalty
|name = Abbasa bint Sulayman
العباسة بنت سليمان
|succession = Consort of the Abbasid caliph
|title = Zawjat al-khalifa
|reign = 804 – 809
|reign-type = Tenure
|image =
|caption =
|spouse = Harun al-Rashid (m. 803/804)
|issue =
|issue-type = Children
|full name = Abbasa bint Sulayman ibn Abdallah al-Mansur
|birth_date = c. 780s
|birth_place = Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate
|death_date = 810s
|death_place = Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate
|place of burial= Baghdad
|dynasty = Abbasid
|father = Sulayman
|mother =
|religion = Islam }}
Abbasa bint Sulayman ({{langx|ar|العباسة بنت سليمان}}) was an Abbasid princess, daughter of Sulayman ibn Abi Ja'far, niece of Abbasid caliph al-Mahdi and wife of caliph Harun al-Rashid.
Biography
Abbasa was the daughter of Abbasid prince Sulayman and a wife of Caliph Harun al-Rashid ({{reign|786|809}}){{sfn|Madelung|2000|p=328}}{{sfn|al-Tabari|Bosworth|1989|p=326}} She marriage Harun al-Rashid around 803–804.
Her father, Sulayman was a son of the Abbasid caliph al-Mansur ({{reign|754|775}}) and one of his wives, Fatima bint Muhammad, granddaughter of Isa ibn Talha al-Taymi, who was the son of a leading companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, Talha ibn Ubaydallah.{{sfn|Madelung|2000|p=328}}{{sfn|Kennedy|1990|pp=94, 148–149}}
Abbasa was related to Abbasid house both by birth and marriage. She was the third and last Abbasid princess who married Harun al-Rashid. His first Abbasid wife was Zubaidah bint Ja'far and second was Umm Muhammad bint Salih.
Her husband, Harun's another wife was Jurashiyyah al-Uthmanniyah. She was the daughter of Abdallah ibn Muhammad, and had descended from Uthman, the third Caliph of the Rashidun.{{sfn|al-Tabari|Bosworth|1989|p=326}}
Family
Abbasa was contemporary and related to several Abbasid caliphs, prince and princesses. Her own children died at very young age, she kept good relations with her step-son children.
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!No. !Abbasids !Relation |
| 1
| Husband |
| 2
| Al-Amin{{sfn|Abbott|1946|p=141}} | Step-son |
| 3
| Step-son |
| 4
| Al-Qasim ibn Harun al-Rashid | Step-son |
| 5
| Ali ibn Harun al-Rashid{{sfn|Abbott|1946|p=141}} | Step-son |
| 6
| Sukaynah bint Harun al-Rashid | Step-daughter |
| 7
| Hamdunah bint Harun al-Rashid | Step-daughter |
| 8
| Fatimah bint Harun al-Rashid | Step-daughter |
References
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Sources
- {{cite book |last=Abbott |first=Nabia |title=Two Queens of Baghdad: Mother and Wife of Hārūn Al Rashīd |publisher=University of Chicago Press |year=1946 |isbn=978-0-86356-031-6}}
- {{The History of al-Tabari |volume=29 |url=}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Madelung |first1=Wilferd |title=Abūʾl ʿAmayṭar the Sufyānī |journal=Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam |date=2000 |volume=24 |pages=327–343 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AI5tAAAAMAAJ}}
- {{cite book | last1=al-Tabari | first1=Muhammad Ibn Yarir | last5=Bosworth | first5=Clifford Edmund | title=The History of al-Tabari Vol. 30: The 'Abbasid Caliphate in Equilibrium: The Caliphates of Musa al-Hadi and Harun al-Rashid A.D. 785-809/A.H. 169-193 |translator=C. E. Bosworth | publisher=State University of New York Press | series=Bibliotheca Persica | year=1989 | isbn=978-0-88706-564-4 |ref={{harvid|al-Tabari|Bosworth|1989}}}}
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Category:8th-century women from the Abbasid Caliphate
Category:9th-century women from the Abbasid Caliphate
Category:Wives of Abbasid caliphs
Category:8th-century people from the Abbasid Caliphate
Category:9th-century people from the Abbasid Caliphate
Category:9th-century Arab people
Category:Year of birth uncertain
Category:Year of death uncertain
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