The Abbasids overthrew a dynasty and built one of the greatest empires in history. Their rise reshaped the Islamic world and ushered in a golden age of power, knowledge, and wealth.

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 ...

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 ...

The first major caliphate was the Rashidun Caliphate, followed by the Umayyad Caliphate and the Abbasid Caliphate. The Islamic Golden age began during the Abbasid caliphate which was centred ...

Gadara, located some 120 km northwest of Amman (Photo courtesy of ACOR) AMMAN — The Abbasid presence at Gadara (modern Umm Qais) was mentioned in the works of Arab mediaeval geographers and scholars.

Abbasid Baghdad, Song China, Renaissance Italy, the Dutch Republic and the Anglosphere – historian Norberg seeks to answer the question: how do we ensure that our current golden age doesn’t end?