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  1. During the 'Abbasid dynasty
  2. (750-969), close contacts be-
  3. tween 'Abbasid Caliph Harun
  4. a-Rashid and Charlemagne's
  5. empire fostered the develop-
  6. ment of Jerusalem's Chris-
  7. tian institutions. A number of
  8. churches and monasteries
  9. were erected which stood
  10. until the crazed Fatimid Ca-
  11. liph al-Hakim destroyed
  12. them in 1009.
  13.