In 1258, the Mongol Empire unleashed one of the most devastating sieges in history, bringing down the heart of the Islamic ...

Discover the captivating story of Medieval Baghdad, once the shining beacon of the Islamic Golden Age, through the lens of ...

By 4 a.m ., a breeze had begun to blow across the stadium near the center of Baghdad, but Qaid al-Sheikhli was still sweating ...

Between A.D. 869 to 883 a group known as the Zanj, many of whom were enslaved people taken from Africa, rebelled against the Abbasid Caliphate (ruled from 750 to 1258) and disrupted its control ...

The Abbasid Ahmed was imprisoned for ten years by his nephew, the then-caliph, after the latter suspected him of aiming to dethrone him.

In “The Once and Future World Order,” by Amitav Acharya, and “The Golden Road,” by William Dalrymple, our best hope might be that history repeats itself.

dc.subject.keywords: Baghdad dc.subject.keywords: Abbasid Caliphate dc.subject.keywords: Strange,g.le dc.title: Baghdad During The Abbasid Caliphate,ed.2 Addeddate 2017-01-18 06:56:42 Identifier ...

After pointedly lingering on the creative and economic hiatus after the fall of Rome – “pitch dark” despite “the heroic efforts of revisionist historians” – Norberg picks up the story in the ...

A Swedish historian charts the rise and fall of golden ages around the world over the past three millennia, ranging from Athens to the Anglosphere via the Abbasid caliphate. He finds that the ...

Maira’s grandfather was the descendant and last Amir of the Abbasid Caliphate 750CE; the golden age of learning, literature and art. During the time of Caliph Harun Ul Rashid Abbasi, the famed One ...

Up to 17 million people have passed through the slave trade in the Muslim world since the 7th century. Tragically, the ...