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{{Short description|Abbasid princess and wife of Harun al-Rashid}}
{{Infobox royalty
|name        = Abbasa bint Sulayman <br>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 dynasty|Abbasid]]
|father      = [[Sulayman ibn Abi Ja'far|Sulayman]]
|mother      =
|religion    = [[Islam]] }}
'''Abbasa bint Sulayman''' ({{langx|ar|العباسة بنت سليمان}}) was an [[Abbasid dynasty|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 ibn Abi Ja'far|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, [[Fatimah bint Muhammad al-Taymi|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 dynasty|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.
{| class="wikitable" border="2"
!No.
!Abbasids
!Relation
|-
|1
| [[Harun al-Rashid]]
| Husband
|-
|2
| [[Al-Amin]]{{sfn|Abbott|1946|p=141}}
| Step-son
|-
|3
| [[Al-Ma'mun]]
| 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==
{{reflist}}
==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:780s births]]
[[Category:810s deaths]]
[[Category:8th-century women from the Abbasid Caliphate]]
[[Category:9th-century women from the Abbasid Caliphate]]
[[Category:Harun al-Rashid]]
[[Category:Wives of Abbasid caliphs]]
[[Category:8th-century people from the Abbasid Caliphate]]
[[Category:9th-century people from the Abbasid Caliphate]]
[[Category:Arab princesses]]
[[Category:9th-century Arab people]]
[[Category:Year of birth uncertain]]
[[Category:Year of death uncertain]]
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