Born: Unknown, Iraq
Died: 10 July 831
Country most active: Iraq
Also known as: زبيدة بنت جعفر بن المنصور
The following is excerpted from A Cyclopædia of Female Biography, published 1857 by Groomsbridge and Sons and edited by Henry Gardiner Adams.
ZOBEIDE, or ZOEBD-EL-KHEMATIN, That is, the flower of women, was the cousin and wife of the celebrated caliph Haroun al Raschid. She was a beautiful, pious, and benevolent woman, and is said to have founded the city of Tauris, in Persia. She is frequently mentioned in the “Arabian Nights.” She died in 831.