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Haroun al-Rashid figures in the third chapter of Ulysses, in a dream of Stephen:

"Wait. Open hallway. Street of harlots. Remember. Haroun al Raschid. I am almosting it."

Harun al-Rashid (Al-Rashid is Arabic for The Rightly Guided) (Arabic هارون الرشيد also spelled Harun ar-Rashid, Haroun al-Rashid or Haroon al Rasheed; English: Aaron the Upright; ca. 763 – March 24, 809) was the fifth and most famous Abbasid Caliph. Ruling from 786 until 809, his reign and the fabulous court over which he held sway are immortalized in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights.

Julian Köchert's painting of Harun al-Rashid (1864) receiving the delegation of Charlemagne demonstrates the latter's recognition of Harun al-Rashid as the most powerful man of his culture. The oil on canvas is located at Maximilianeum Foundation in Munich.