She got from her lands one million dinars every year.
She got from her lands one million dinars every year.’[^13] The Abbasid kings gifted their relatives with great monies. Ar-Rashid distributed among his uncles and relatives monies that no caliph before him had ever distributed.[^14] Al-Mansur ad-Dawaniqi assigned one million dirhams to each one of his uncles.[^15] The Abbasid family grew until they were, at the reign of al-Ma’mun, about thirty-three thousand persons.
^16 This family, that had no any preference to the rest of Muslims, misappropriated the wealth of the nation and enjoyed the great monies, while the rest of Muslim peoples were sunk into poverty, deprivation, and wretchedness. Great Gifts To Bondmaids The Abbasid kings were…
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