Up to 17 million people have passed through the slave trade in the Muslim world since the 7th century. Tragically, the ...

Discover the captivating story of Medieval Baghdad, once the shining beacon of the Islamic Golden Age, through the lens of Kings and Generals. Journey back to the early days of the Abbasid Caliphate, ...

Though the Abbasid capital shifted to Baghdad, the Shami route remained active due to Damascus’s enduring spiritual significance. More waystations and supply points—especially in Wadi al-Qura ...

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 ...

When Imam (AS) attained the Imamat, the political government was then run by Haroon al-Rashid in Baghdad. Because of the style of rule exercised by this Abbasid caliph which was nothing but force over ...

In “Peak Human”, Mr Norberg charts the rise and fall of golden ages around the world over the past three millennia, ranging from Athens to the Anglosphere via the Abbasid caliphate.

Located along the Tigris River, Baghdad, Iraq’s largest city, was founded in the 8th Century and became the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate. Now, torn between its glorious past and its recent bloody ...

After the Levant was conquered by the Rashidun Caliphate—the first caliphate, which lasted from 632 to 661 and had four caliphs, with Medina as its capital—the Mardaites obtained semi-independence in ...

In the year 869 AD, the Great Heathen Army of Danish Viking Ivar the Boneless was conquering the English kingdom of East Anglia, an earthquake followed by a tsunami ravaged the northwest of Japan, ...

The Ottoman caliphate, whose nature was reinterpreted multiple times throughout the empire's history, was to survive for 412 years, from 1512 until 1924. Who was the last caliph?