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

Johan Norberg’s history of civilisation is an impressive conceptual achievement – but it has little to say about our own age ...

This new research emphasizes the importance of preserving such heritage sites, especially in a country where decades of ...

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

Badar, Fauzia and Karim—three people from different walks of life—come of age in Tanzania. The author’s first novel since ...

Johan Norberg on what drove history’s influential civilisations; Ben Chu on the rise of zero-sum economic thinking; plus Germany’s decline and a must-read for monetary aficionados ...

Because of the style of rule exercised by this Abbasid caliph which was nothing but force over the people, after a lapse of several years, Haroon al-Rashid’s government began to lose strength because ...

By the mid-8th century, before the Abbasid Caliphate defeated the Chinese at Talas in 751 CE and the subsequent An Lushan Rebellion in China, the Tang state was stretching deep into Central Asia ...

There is a historical thread drawn between Ahmed Agha and Ahmed the paternal uncle to Al-Musta'sim Billah, the last caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate. The Abbasid Ahmed was imprisoned for ten years ...

The archaeological sites of Old Cairo are being transformed and upgraded as part of plans to turn the district into a more ...

Maira’s grandfather was the descendant and last Amir of the Abbasid Caliphate 750CE; the golden age of learning, literature and art. During the time of Caliph Harun Ul Rashid Abbasi, the famed One ...