She transformed the capital of her rule into a center for science and culture, revived the pilgrimage route to Mecca, and implemented an unprecedented project for water distribution in Makkah Al-Mukarramah, until she said in response to the high cost of the project, "Work even if the blow cost the ax a dinar."

The recitation of the Qur'an was not interrupted in her palace, and her elegance was a source of inspiration, and her role in the rule of the country is known to all, and this is not all about Princess Zubaydah, wife of Harun Al-Rashid, the daughter of Abu Jaafar Al-Mansour.

Daughter of Mansour and wife of Rashid

One of the most important women of the Abbasid state, she was the granddaughter of the founder of the Abbasid Caliph Abu Ja`far al-Mansur from his son Ja`far, the wife of the caliph Harun al-Rashid, and the mother of Caliph al-Amin.

But its importance did not stem from its calculation and lineage, it made its own glory in culture, science and politics, and was a pioneer in the field of construction, as it designed the water supply in Makkah Al-Mukarramah, and the pilgrim route from Kufa to Makkah Al Mukarramah, and even today its name remains immortalized in its work.

Shepherd of science and literature

Zubaydah, the name that her grandfather Al Mansour caressed throughout her childhood for her beauty and the intensity of her whiteness until she stuck to her, was of beauty, courage and wisdom that surrounded her with respect and admiration. And, large sums of money were provided to turn Baghdad into a science and culture capital that attracted the symbols of various sciences.

The love that her husband and cousin Harun al-Rashid brought for her, and his confidence in the integrity of her opinion and the weight of her mind, made her a counselor.

Her white hand palace

In its palace located on the western shore of the Tigris, which is called "Zubaydah Palace", nicknamed "Dar Al-Qarar" and surrounded by gardens and orchards, and it had no similarity in that civilization, "Jerji Zidan", the Lebanese writer and thinker, points out in his book "Al-Abbasah, the sister of Rashid", Zubaida "kept 100 female maid memorizers of the Qur’an, and for every one there was a tenth of the Qur’an, and they recited his recitation throughout the day, until he used to hear in her palace the bee bees from reading.

Zubaida was the owner of a new trend in clothing during the Abbasid era, and the first to make domes in silver, ebony, and sandal, prefer natural silk and bright colors such as red, yellow, green and blue. She takes the jeweled pumice, and the women in Baghdad were eager to copy their glamorous dress designs.

Although the seer may find what she spends on extravagant extravagance and extravagance, she was dubbed the "white hand" on the other hand, and she spent a lot of money on charity and helping the poor.

The wheel of pilgrims

During one of her trips to Makkah to spend the Hajj pilgrimage, and it was an exceptionally dry year, Zubaida noticed that pilgrims and residents in Makkah suffered from a shortage of water in the dry valley, and as soon as she returned to her palace, she decided to take matters into her hand, and her first job was to deepen a well Zamzam, relieve some of the suffering immediately.

She also had farsightedness, and according to an article by Sunni writer Ayman (Saina Aiman) on "The Daily Star", Zubaydah understood that it was not necessary to rely only on the well, so she assigned her engineers the task of finding ways to bring water to Mecca.

The valleys near the city contained some wells, but the only suitable source of water for such an initiative was found about 35 km away, in Wadi Hanin between Makkah and Taif, and it is said that Zubaidah bought the entire valley and assigned its team of architects to build canals To fetch this water, and from another well nearby to Mecca.

Indeed, wells were built along the canal to allow people to access water and all other channels and any available water sources located nearby were used to enhance the water supply in the canal, and that project cost her approximately 1.7 million dinars, Zubaida incurred all of this cost from Its own lockers.

Zubaydah recounted the pilgrims, and her project was later called "Ain Zubaydah", and people called her the "Pilgrim's Wheel".

Sepide's trail

Despite her great achievement in watering the pilgrims of Mecca, there is a greater achievement for her, in which "Zubaida" used her wealth, influence and intelligence, and by all of this herself is eager to do good.

The pilgrims ’route from Iraq to Mecca was barren and barren, so Zubaydah entrusted its architects and architects with paving the road from Kufa to Makkah, and constructed wells and homes along it for comfort and comfort, and it bore its entire expenses and called it the“ Zubaydah Path ”.

Son died and another did not give birth

The brains of her mind and the safety of her foresight did not prevent her from being obsessed by the feelings of motherhood, and she preferred that her faithful son take over the succession after his father instead of his older brother, Al-Mamun, the son of the girl, despite the fact that she raised the mother who died three days after his birth.

Preference reached the point of disagreement with her husband, but she insisted, and in front of her insistence the caliph agreed, and the successor took over the caliphate after the death of his father, but sedition flared up between the two brothers, and as a result the caliph Al-Amin was killed in the war against his brother and Al-Mamun took the caliphate.

Zubaydah was saddened a lot, but she nevertheless wrote to Al-Mamun, according to what was stated in the book “The Role of Women in the Abbasid Caliphate” by the writer Amal Muhyiddin Al-Kurdi, “I congratulate you on a caliphate that I congratulated on you before I saw you, and while you had lost a son, Khalifa, It compensated for the sons of Khalifa I did not give it. "

The new caliph rushed to her, and he vowed that he did not order the killing of his brother, and for 32 years after that she lived, Al-Mamun treated Zubaydah with great respect, and he resorted to her to hear advice on the affairs of the state, and before her opinion in many cases.