Explore the rapid expansion of Islamic empires from Arabia to Europe, Africa, and Asia between the 7th and 9th centuries, and their lasting impact on global history.

Baghdad, the majestic capital city of the great Abbasid Caliphate. For centuries, the city was a center of culture, learning, trade and religious life. However, in the 1250’s, Hulagu, brother of ...

Describing Baghdad’s glorious centuries from A.D. 750 to the Mongol sack in 1258, he turns to a book about slave girl concubines by the prolific ninth-century author al-Jahiz for a window into ...

Baghdad was center of knowledge, progress As Baghdad was the largest city in the Islamic world at the time and the center of culture and trade, scholars from across the globe journeyed there to study, ...

Siege of Baghdad From 29 January to 10 February 1258, the illustrious city of Baghdad — the crown jewel of the Muslim world — endured a relentless siege by the invading Mongols. [7] This invasion ...

Assassin’s Creed Mirage: What to know about the ‘Golden Age’ of Baghdad The new video game attempts to offer a glimpse of Baghdad, once the capital of an empire and the centre of the Islamic ...

He praised the game’s designers for “recreating a lost city”, because — after Baghdad was sacked by Mongol forces in 1258 — the Abbasid Caliphate “did not leave any trace”.

New Assassin’s Creed video game brings Baghdad’s Golden Age back to life The game brings to life a city that was the intellectual and artistic heart of the mighty Abbasid empire.

As we know, Baghdad would eventually be destroyed in the year 1258 when the city was sacked and invaded.