Rising in the 8th century, the Abbasids built a vast empire that became a center of knowledge, trade, and innovation. Their ...

History often speaks of the continuous rise of Islam with the arrival of Prophet Muhammad in the 7th century. But Buddhism played a major role in a fall of the centre of the Islamic Empire.

This great era in Islamic history is known as The Abbasid Dynasty. It was a time of growth and change and the round city of Baghdad was the heart of Arabic and Islamic civilisation. Muhammad ...

The Abbasids oversaw a flourishing intellectual scene known as the Islamic Golden Age. Scholars from across the empire flocked to the House of Wisdom, a state-sponsored library in Baghdad.

The Abbasid Caliphate succeeded the Umayyads after defeating them at the Battle of the Zab, and they stamped their authority on the Islamic world by moving the capital to their power base in Baghdad ...

The caliph Al-Ma’mun of the Abbasid dynasty in Baghdad put Hunayn ibn Ishaq in charge of the translators at the city’s famous Bayt al-Hikma, or House of Wisdom. By the 900s, drawing from a ...

The Abbasid Caliphate ruled from Kufa, Baghdad, and Samarra in Iraq between 750 CE and 1258 CE. The Turko-Persian Seljuk Empire reigned from 1037-1194 CE. By the early 14th century, Egypt had become ...

Despite Iltutmish’s antecedents as a manumitted Ilbari Turk slave and the son-in-law of another slave general, Qutbuddin Aibak, he gained recognition from the Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad the same ... of ...

From grand cities to groundbreaking discoveries, the Abbasid Caliphate transformed the Islamic world. Yet, even the most ...

Car bombs and militant attacks no longer a daily concern in the streets of Baghdad, many young Iraqis say their opportunities remain limited BAGHDAD -- Car bombs and militant attacks are no longer ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Car bombs and militant attacks are no longer a daily concern in the streets of Baghdad as they were in the chaotic years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, or at the height of the ...