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 ...

Geopolitical potentials were a primary consideration in where and how the city was constructed and took the mantle of the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate from Kufah, which remains an important ...

Samarra, the capital of the caliphate at that time, was the scene of the assassination of al-Mutawakkil, followed by the poisoning of al-Muntasir within six months, the flight and subsequent execution ...

Between the years 796 and 809 - during a period generally seen as the “golden age” of Islam – the then ruler of the Abbasid caliphate, Harun al-Rashid, moved his capital from Baghdad to Raqqa.

Several caliphates have been declared throughout history, including the Abbasid caliphate of the ninth century, which dominated the Arabian peninsula as well as modern-day Iran, Iraq and ...

Raqqah’s history offered a convenient means of evoking past glories: It had been the capital of a caliphate — a Muslim ruler’s administrative jurisdiction — in the late 8 th and early 9 th ...

In 771, the Abbasid Caliph al-Mansour chose Raqqa to serve as a second capital after Baghdad, and to help him defend north-eastern Syria, known as "al-Jazira".

A rare finding of 425 solid gold coins, dating back approximately 1,100 years ago from the Abbasid Caliphate, were unearthed during an archaeological dig in central Israel, the Israel Antiquities ...

In 771, the Abbasid Caliph al-Mansour chose Raqqa to serve as a second capital after Baghdad, and to help him defend north-eastern Syria, known as "al-Jazira".