Samarra was the second capital of the Abbasid Caliphate after Baghdad ... as well as the largest palaces in the Islamic world (the Caliphal Palace Qasr al-Khalifa, al-Ja'fari, al Ma'shuq, and others).

It has come to be remembered as Islam’s ‘golden age’. This is the rise and fall of the Abbasid Caliphate. KFC is leaving its ancestral home as parent company moves its corporate office to ...

Inside the Abbasid palace of Baghdad, built in around 12th century. The caliphates (Islamic states) were governed by a caliph. They were the successors to Muhammad. The first major caliphate was ...

When he fled from his mayors of the palace and became a shadow in Egypt, that pretension was maintained and was assumed by the Turkish Sultan Selim, when in 1517 he took the Caliphate from the hands ...