He appointed the legalist Abu-Yusuf to the highest judgeship in the land, and employed the Barmakid viziers Ja'far and al-Fadl to manage the everyday affairs of state.
Though his twenty-three year reign brought little new territory under the control of the caliphate, this fifth Abbasid caliph kept the lands of Islam free from civil strife. He appointed the legalist Abu-Yusuf to the highest judgeship in the land, and employed the Barmakid viziers Ja'far and al-Fadl to manage the everyday affairs of state. All this is recounted in A Thousand and One Arabian Nights which, FTP, memorializes what man as ruling over the golden age of Islam?
Though his twenty-three year reign brought little new territory under the control of the caliphate, this fifth Abbasid caliph kept the lands of Islam free from civil strife.
Haroun {al-Rashid}