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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The world will not come to an end,” said the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), “ until a man from my family (Ahlulbayt) and of my name ...

There is a perceptible Roman bias in the teaching of law, but the ancient Greeks were actually also quite influential.

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 ...

PanARMENIAN.Net - Renovations began on St. Gregory the Illuminator Church in Baghdad, the cathedral of ... since the 7th-12th centuries, during the Abbasid Caliphate. The community expanded ...