From grand cities to groundbreaking discoveries, the Abbasid Caliphate transformed the Islamic world. Yet, even the most ...

Middle East, a new dynasty seized control of one of the world’s greatest empires – the Islamic Caliphate. Though little ...

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

Baghdad falls to the Mongols as the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed and tens of thousands are slaughtered. 1542: Catherine ...

In Islam, the production and promotion of knowledge in Islam serves a higher purpose — it is neither a self-serving pursuit ...

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 ...

Surprising, bold, and enduring… the history of eroticism in the Arab-Muslim world shines a spotlight on homosexuality and the ...

PanARMENIAN.Net - Renovations began on St. Gregory the Illuminator Church in Baghdad, the cathedral of the Armenian Diocese ...

Maira’s grandfather was the descendant and last Amir of the Abbasid Caliphate 750CE; the golden age of learning, literature and art. During the time of Caliph Harun Ul Rashid Abbasi, the famed One ...

In other cities across the new Islamic world, Muslim patrons hired these men. The caliph Al-Ma’mun of the Abbasid dynasty in Baghdad put Hunayn ibn Ishaq in charge of the translators at the city ...

Baghdad was the seat of the Abbasid caliphs from the eighth century ... The Mongols advanced on Baghdad and demanded the city’s surrender. Confusion reigned in the Caliph al-Musta’sim’s capital and it ...

The Abbasid Caliph Al-Nassir changed the Kiswa’s color to green and later to black brocade, and this has remained its color to the present day,” the Arab News report said. The Abbasid Caliphate ruled ...