Baghdad, the majestic capital city of the great Abbasid Caliphate. For centuries, the city was a center of culture, learning, trade and religious life. However, in the 1250’s, Hulagu, brother of ...

The apogee of the Abbasid caliphate coincides with the heydays of the Tang Dynasty in China (619-907). In the Accounts imperial China is painted as a highly organised and regulated society.

During its long and glorious Abbasid heyday, which stretched from 762 to the catastrophe of 1258, Baghdad was the intellectual and cultural capital of the planet.

Once the capital of an empire, at 1,250 years,the city is a far cry from its past glories after being ravaged by years of war. EPAPER LIVE TV DAWNNEWS URDU Images Herald Aurora CityFM89 Advertise ...

He says the dynasty was as pivotal to world history in the 8th and 9th centuries as the Roman Empire was in the 1st and 2nd. "The Abbasids ruled over a very big area, basically from what is now ...

The Abbasid Caliphate was founded in 750 by a dynasty descended from and named itself after the Prophet Muhammad’s uncle, Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib, who died 100 years before the dynasty was ...

New Assassin’s Creed video game brings Baghdad’s Golden Age back to life. The game brings to life a city that was the intellectual and artistic heart of the mighty Abbasid empire.

For the first half-millennium of the Abbasid dynasty, when Baghdad was the world's cultural and intellectual capital, a One Thousand and One Nights city of scholars and scientists, poets and ...

It was built in AD876 during the Abbasid dynasty. ... Inside the Abbasid palace of Baghdad, built in around 12th century. The caliphates (Islamic states) were governed by a caliph.