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

The Abbasid caliphate was centuries ahead of Mr. Baghdadi’s backward-looking cohorts. Abbasid society during its heyday thrived on multiculturalism, science, innovation, ...

And Harun al-Rashid, perhaps the greatest Abbasid caliph, briefly relocated the caliphate to Raqqa, the Syrian city that is the capital of the Islamic State.

The succeeding Arab caliphates ruling the Muslim world for over six hundred years from Damascus and Baghdad, the Umayyad caliphate (661-750 C.E.) and the Abbasid caliphate (750-1258 C.E.), met the ...

Epic History. Baghdad Burns - The Fall of the Abbasid Caliphate. Posted: April 2, 2025 | Last updated: April 2, 2025. They ruled for 500 years and led the Islamic world into a golden age.

Administrative division of the Abbasid Caliphate in the mid-9th century AD. Credit: Cattette / Wikimedia Commons Ali ibn Muhammad, skillfully combining Kharijism with Zaydism, began his Friday sermons ...

PLATTSBURGH — Three caliphates emerged in early Islam after the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632 C.E. The first four caliphs or successors — Abu Bakr ibn Qhuafah, Umar ibn al-Khattab ...

Several caliphates have been declared throughout history, including the Abbasid caliphate of the ninth century, which dominated the Arabian peninsula as well as modern-day Iran, Iraq and ...

Gold coins dating to the Abbasid Caliphate in Tel Aviv on August 1. HEIDI LEVINE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images. It’s a curious fact of human nature that time and again, teenagers and young people ...