Name: Çorum Province
Address: Çorum Province

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Abd Allah al-Ma'mun ibn Harun al-Rashid

Seventh Abbasid caliph, born in 170 AH, 786 CE, a son of Harun al-Rashid. He governed Khurasan as heir, then won a civil war against his brother al-Amin, who was killed in 198 AH, 813 CE. He designated Ali al-Rida as his successor, returned to Baghdad in 204 AH, 819 CE, and, according to the Encyclopaedia of Islam, encouraged translation, founded the Bayt al-Hikma, favoured the Mu'tazila and instituted the mihna in 218 AH, 833 CE. He died near Tarsus in Rajab 218 AH, August 833 CE, and was succeeded by his brother al-Mu'tasim.

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