"No reader of the 'Thousand and One Nights' can have forgotten Haroun Al Rascid, the caliiph of Bagdad, who encountered so many adventures in perambulating the streets of his capital, disguised, in company with his vizier, and his black slave Mesrour." — Goodrich, 1844

Haroun Al Rascid

"No reader of the 'Thousand and One Nights' can have forgotten Haroun Al Rascid, the caliiph of Bagdad,…