Discover the top 10 largest empires in history by land area, from the vast British Empire to the influential Mongol Empire. Explore their peak land areas, time periods, and notable regions controlled ...

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However, Fars ruler Qotlogh Khan is assigned by Abbasid caliph Mamun the task of stopping them. They all are killed in an intense battle with the ruler’s men.

They destroyed Baghdad and killed the last Abbasid caliph, ending the caliphate as a political force. No empire would reunite the Islamic world under a single caliph again for centuries.

In contrast to Europe’s antisemitism, the Arab world of Islam welcomed the Jewish community, and their scholars, philosophers, mathematicians, physicians and scientists rose to great heights since the ...

Volume 30: The 'Abbasid Caliphate in Equilibrium: The Caliphates of Musa al-Hadi and Harun al-Ra Volume 31: The War between Brothers: The Caliphate of Muhammad al-Amin A.D. 809-813/A.H. 193-198 ...

They reached Baghdad in Ramadan of 1099 and requested support from the Abbasid Caliph al-Mustazhir and the Sultan Barkiyāruq against the Franks. The Qādi stood up and conveyed the news to the others, ...

In 921, the Abbasid diplomat Ahmad ibn Fadlān left Baghdad on a mission to the far north. Tasked with strengthening ties between his master Caliph al-Muqtadir and a revert Muslim ruler a long way from ...

The harshness of agricultural labor in these swampy lands may have been, according to some theories, the trigger of the Zanj Rebellion (869–883 CE), a prolonged conflict that shook the Abbasid ...