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 ...

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For centuries, Baghdad seemed to stand at the centre of the world. Chosen as the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate around the year 762, the city rose from the banks of the Tigris River with ...

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 ...

Not Saudi Arabia or UAE, this Muslim country was once the most powerful in the Middle East, but was destroyed due to…., its name is… Iraq was once the center of the Abbasid Caliphate and a hub ...

During the Abbasid Caliphate (AD750 -1258), Baghdad became the centre for science, medicine, maths and more! This early Islamic period is sometimes called the Golden Age of Islam because there ...

Kevin Carroll writes that when Islamic State attacks Baghdad, it is likely to use the tactics that worked in Ramadi—but the U.S. can do much to change the outcome.