The book pushes back on stereotypes of Muslim women being oppressed and subservient, and instead highlights stories of ...

The Umayyad Caliphate once ruled a vast Islamic empire, but internal divisions, social unrest, and rising opposition led to ...

Baghdad, the majestic capital city of the great Abbasid Caliphate. For centuries, the city was a center of culture, learning, ...

An international team of archaeologists has, for the first time, accurately dated an extensive farming system in southern ...

That was followed by the third caliphate, the Abbasid Caliphate, which lost Spain and part of North Africa but still ruled a pretty huge area from 750 to 1258. That was the last real caliphate ...

the former capital of the medieval Abbasid caliphate, in 1534. In recent years, historians have challenged the previously popular notion that the Ottomans paid little attention to the idea of the ...

Whether you dream of holstering a flintlock pistol and sailing through the 18th-century Golden Age of Piracy or leading a clan of Vikings to settle in the fractured Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of the 9th ...

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.