Meanwhile, the Abbasid Caliphate faced an unexpected and serious problem: a massive insurrection that broke out in Mesopotamia near Basra, led by a self-proclaimed descendant of Muhammad who was ...

These novels blend the substantiated with the surreal, offering new ways to understand the past through magic, monsters and ...

The succeeding Arab caliphates ruling the Muslim world for over six hundred years from Damascus and Baghdad, the Umayyad caliphate (661-750 C.E.) and the Abbasid caliphate (750-1258 C.E.), met the ...

Western pundits and nostalgic Muslim thinkers alike have built up a narrative of the caliphate as an enduring institution, central to Islam and Islamic thought between the seventh and twentieth ...

Abbasid Caliphate (750–1258) Cue political strife and uprising and subsequently the Umayyads caliphate was taken over by the Abbasid dynasty, who made their capital Baghdad.

The Abbasid Caliphate: A History Illuminating account of the most influential force in the Muslim world from the eighth to the 13th centuries GLOBAL FIRST: The Great Mosque of Samarra, completed in ...

The Abbasid Caliphate covered 4.29 million square miles of land - more than 7% of the earth's landmass. The empire had an unknown population number in 750 and claimed Baghdad as its capital.

It is written by G. Le Strange, author of "Bagdad During the Abbasid Caliphate," "Palestine Under the Moslems," &c, of which books "The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate" may be said to form a companion.

The apogee of the Abbasid caliphate coincides with the heydays of the Tang Dynasty in China (619-907). In the Accounts imperial China is painted as a highly organised and regulated society.