Meadows Of Gold The Abbasids

1. Abu Ja'far Mansur
2. A Conversation with the King of Nubia
3. Loyalty to Hisham
4. In the Audience Hall
5. The Death of Mansur
6. The Character of Mansur
7. The Caliphate of Mahdi
8. Mahdi and the Qadi
9. Mahdi and the Peasant
10. Mahdi and the Bedouin
11. Mahdi and the Treasurer
12. The Wheel of Fortune
13. Unrequited Love
14. An Amusing Story about the King of Hira
15. The Last Days of Mahdi
16. The Character of Hadi
17. Isa ibn Da'b
18. Revenge
19. The Death of the Great-great-great Grandson of the Prophet
20. The Fall of Khaizuran
21. Blood Feuds
22. The Climate of Egypt
23. Basra versus Kufa
24. Harun al-Rashid and the Death of Hadi
25. The Dream of Mahdi
26. The Sword Samsama
27. The Accession of Harun al-Rashid
28. Sheep's Head
29. A Qadi's Interpretation
30. The Last Pilgrimage of Harun al-Rashid
31. Doctor Jabra'il and a Fish
32. The Dream of Harun al-Rashid
33. A Black and a Song
34. Poem on a Dove
35. Ma'n ibn Za'ida
36. Amin and Ma'mun as Children
37. The Education of Amin
38. Amin and Ma'mun
39. The Succession
40. Zubaida's Opinion
41. Rashid's Pilgrimage with his Sons
42. The Devil's Song
43. A Hard-Won Song
44. Horse-Racing at Raqqa
45. Fish Tongues
46. The Name Ibrahim
47. Bamboo and Reed
48. The Death of Harun al-Rashid
49. Khalid ibn Barmak and His Sons
50. The Barmakids
51. The Advice of Yahya
52. Harun al-Rashid and the Singing Girl
53. The Avarice of Asma'i
54. A Poet on Rashid and Ja'far ibn Yahya
55. On Love
56. The Fall of the Barmakids
57. The Murder of Ja'far al-Barmaki
58. Elegies on the Barmakids
59. The Mother of Ja'far
60. The Wealth of the Barmakids
61. Fadl in Prison
62. Miscellaneous on Rashid and the Barmakids
63. The Caliphate of Amin
64. The Dreams of Zubaida
65. Trouble Between Amin and Ma'mun
66. The Jealousy of Zubaida
67. Ill-Omens for Amin
68. Amin's Beloved
69. The Frivolity of Amin
70. Amin and the Lion
71. The Birth of Musa al-Hadi
72. Miscellaneous Anecdotes
73. The Palace of Manbij
74. Musa Declared Heir Apparent
75. Rebellion
76. Amin in Retreat
77. Baghdad Besieged
78. The Naked Army
79. Baghdad in Flames
80. Resistance
81. Famine
82. Amin at Bay
83. The Death of Amin
84. An Eye-Witness Account
85. Amin's Head
86. The Laments of the Women
87. The Caliphate of Ma'mun
88. Sayings of Ma'mun
89. Ma'mun's Wedding Speech
90. Ma'mun and the Sponger
91. The Caliph and the Poet
92. Kulthum al-Attabi
93. Professionally Unlucky
94. Abu al-Atahiya
95. The Caliph's Cooking
96. Ma'mun Embarrassed
97. Ma'mun Justifies Himself to the Sufis
98. The Death of Shafi'i
99. Ma'mun and the False Prophets
100. The Rise and Death of Imam Rida
101. The Capture of Ibrahim ibn al-Mahdi
102. The Marriage of Buran
103. An Adventure of Ibrahim ibn al-Mahdi
104. The Poverty of Waqidi
105. Mansur and the Cadger
106. The Death of Ibn A'isha
107. The Death of Abu al-Atahiya
108. Ma'mun's Campaigns against the Byzantines and His Death
109. The Caliphate of Mu'tasim
110. Mu'tasim on Agriculture
111. Mu'tasim and His Doctor
112. The Kind Heart of Mu'tasim
113. The New Capital of Samarra
114. Mu'tasim
115. The Caliphate of Wathiq
116. ...

First published in 1989. Mas'udi was born in Baghdad about 896 AD, during the Caliphate of Mu'tadid and died in Egypt sometime around the year 956, eleven years after the Buwaihids, a Shi'a dynasty of Iranian origin, had occupied Baghdad and taken control of the Caliphate. His full name was Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn al-Husain ibn Ali ibn Abd Allah al-Mas'udi and he was notable as a Muslim historian. His two major works wereMeadows of Gold (Muruj al-Dhahab) and the Book of Notification (Kitab al-Tanbih).