Zubaidah bint Ja'far

Zubaidah bint Ja`far ibn al-Mansur
زبيدة بنت جعفر ابن المنصور
Zawjat al khalifa
Consort of the Abbasid caliph
TenureSeptember 786 – 24 March 809
Born765/66
al-Iraq, Abbasid Empire (now Iraq)
Died10 July 831
Baghdad, Abbasid Empire
SpouseHarun al-Rashid
IssueMuhammad al-Amin
Names
Umm Ja'far Zubaidah bint Ja`far ibn Abdallah al-Mansur
DynastyAbbasid
FatherJa'far ibn Abdallah al-Mansur
MotherSalsal bint Atta
ReligionIslam

Zubaidah bint Ja`far ibn al-Mansur (Arabic: زبيدة بنت جعفر بن المنصور) (died 26 Jumada I 216 AH / 10 July 831 CE) was the best known of the Abbasid princesses, and the wife and double cousin of Harun al-Rashid. She is particularly remembered for the series of wells, reservoirs and artificial pools that provided water for Muslim pilgrims along the route from Baghdad to Mecca and Medina, which was renamed the Darb Zubaidah[1][2][3] in her honor. The exploits of her and her husband, Harun al-Rashid, form part of the basis for The Thousand and One Nights.

  1. ^ Safadi. Vol. XIV. pp. 176–8.
  2. ^ al-Baghdadi, Al-Khatib. Tarikh Baghdad. Vol. xtv. pp. 433–4.
  3. ^ Bidaya. Vol. X. p. 271.