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A Tale of Two Cities In the grand historical narrative of the Islamic world, two cities have stood out as dominant forces: Baghdad, the intellectual, cultural, and scientific hub of the Islamic Golden ...

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 ...

That 4,000-year-old lament sounded all too contemporary in April as Baghdad mobs stormed Iraq ... THE ASSYRIAN EMPIRE’S SOUL 2500 B.C. - 614 B.C. The siege of ashur in 614 B.C. was long ...

If there ever should be a united Arabia the imperial centre would swing over from Damascus to Baghdad as inevitably as it did more than a thousand years ago, when the Abbasid Caliphate ... is the most ...

Before joining Raw Story, Brad Reed spent eight years writing about technology at BGR.com and Network World. Prior to that, he wrote freelance stories for political publications such as AlterNet ...

A photograph genuinely shows a 2,700-year-old Assyrian deity statue that was discovered in Iraq in 1992, intentionally buried ...

Christian communities flourished in various Muslim empires, including the Umayyad (661–750 CE), Abbasid (750–1258 CE), and Ottoman (1299–1922 CE) dynasties. In cities like Baghdad ...

Ghazi Shami, a native San Franciscan who founded and is CEO of the international music company Empire, wants to make a statement by turning a historic downtown building he recently bought into a ...

Dynasty is coming to Philadelphia. Here’s everything you need to know about the big night of action. The card is loaded, but in my eyes, two of the biggest things on the card are the women’s ...