In eighth-century Baghdad, the Abbasid Caliphate took a momentous decision to found a library dedicated to preserving knowledge from across the world, known as Bayt al Hikmah, the House of Wisdom.

Once dubbed the “City of Peace,” Baghdad was founded in the eighth century by Caliph Abu Jafar al-Mansur as the capital for his rising Muslim Abbasid empire. The city soon became the heart of ...

Baghdad and Samarra, the two capitals of the Abbasid caliphs, were the richest cities of the early Middle Ages, on the same ancient Mesopotamian mud-baked soil that spawned Babylon, Sumer and Assyria.

Samarra Archaeological City is the site of a powerful Islamic capital city that ruled over the provinces of the Abbasid Empire extending from Tunisia to Central Asia for a century. Located on both ...

Founded in AD762, Baghdad quickly grew in size and importance as capital of the Abbasid Caliphate. The Caliph's record-keepers didn't specifically write about weather and climate. But Fernando ...

As the capital of the Abbasid Empire stretching from Morocco ... But, as Marozzi shows in his fascinating and intelligent study of the city, Baghdad's position at the crossroads of the world ...