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 ...

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.

With its 13th instalment released on Thursday, Assassin’s Creed Mirage attempts to immerse players in Iraq’s 9th-century Baghdad during the rule of the Abbasid Caliphate, when it was one of ...

They were keen and curious observers. More than a millennium ago merchant-informants and officials at the service of the Abbasid caliph, from Baghdad or Basra, put to paper eyewitness accounts of ...

In a picture taken on August 10, 2012, an Iraqi policeman walks past the “Wastani Gate” on the historical wall of Baghdad, dating back to the Abbasid era known as the “Islamic Golden Age ...

A new book, When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: The Rise and Fall of Islam's Greatest Dynasty, takes readers back more than ten centuries to a very different time in the city's history -- when it ...

Mutannabi Street, in central Baghdad, has had many names. In the second Abbasid period, it was the Paper Market. Under the Ottomans it was Military Bakery Street. Under the British it was Hassan ...

Baghdad was once the capital of an empire and the center of the Islamic world, but at 1,250 years old, the Iraqi city is a far cry from its past glories after being ravaged by years of war and ...