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 ...

Iraq was once the center of the Abbasid Caliphate and a hub of knowledge until the 15th century. It flourished in trade, culture, and innovation, becoming a beacon of progress in education and ...

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Yet the actual place—50 miles south of Baghdad—is flat ... Samarra grew up virtually overnight into the proud capital of the Abbasid caliphs (descendants of Abbas, the uncle of Muhammad ...

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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 ...