Middle East, a new dynasty seized control of one of the world’s greatest empires – the Islamic Caliphate. Though little ...

Middle East, a new dynasty seized control of one of the world’s greatest empires – the Islamic Caliphate. Though little ...

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.

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 Mongols invade the Middle East. In 1258, General Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, kills Al-Musta’sim Billah, the last Abbasid Caliph. When the Ottoman Empire, a dynasty of Turkish ...

Main routes of the Muslim slave trade in Africa. Credit: Aliesin / Rowanwindwhistler / Wikimedia Commons Starting in 861, the Abbasid caliphate went through one of the typical conflicts that ...

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 ...

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 ...