More than a millennium ago merchant-informants and officials at the service of the Abbasid caliph, from Baghdad or Basra, put to paper eyewitness accounts of North Europeans (Vikings), Indians ...

Inside the Abbasid palace of Baghdad, built in around 12th century. The caliphates (Islamic states) were governed by a caliph. They were the successors to Muhammad. The first major caliphate was ...

From grand cities to groundbreaking discoveries, the Abbasid Caliphate transformed the Islamic world. Yet, even the most powerful empires must face decline. One NFL team has proposed banning the ...

The direct inspiration for the map is unclear, but some fans believe it to replicate the suburbs of Baghdad, founded during the Abbasid Caliphate by the caliph al-Mansur in 762 AD. The gameplay ...

“Participating in my school’s History Bee and Bowl Club and taking the American education system’s Advanced Placement World ...

All authority must be derived through him. When he fled from his mayors of the palace and became a shadow in Egypt, that pretension was maintained and was assumed by the Turkish Sultan Selim, when in ...