During its long and glorious Abbasid heyday, which stretched from 762 to the catastrophe of 1258, Baghdad was the intellectual and cultural capital of the planet.

New Assassin’s Creed video game brings Baghdad’s Golden Age back to life The game brings to life a city that was the intellectual and artistic heart of the mighty Abbasid empire.

He says the dynasty was as pivotal to world history in the 8th and 9th centuries as the Roman Empire was in the 1st and 2nd. "The Abbasids ruled over a very big area, basically from what is now ...

For the first half-millennium of the Abbasid dynasty, when Baghdad was the world's cultural and intellectual capital, a One Thousand and One Nights city of scholars and scientists, poets and ...

Baghdad and Samarra, the two capitals of the Abbasid caliphs, were the richest cities of the early Middle Ages, on the same ancient Mesopotamian mud-baked soil that spawned Babylon, Sumer and Assyria.

And in 750 the Abbasid Dynasty supplanted that Umayyad Dynasty and established Baghdad as its capital, a city that was strategically located on the Tigris River. +++ ...

“Baghdad represented the economic centre of the Abbasid Empire, and it was used as a starting point for controlling other neighbouring regions to enhance Islamic power,” said Issam al-Faili, a ...

The Abbasid dynasty was established by Abu al-Abbas, who was also called Saffah, meaning the spiller of blood. ONE The Abbasids came to power in 750AD and remained so for about five centuries ...

“With information curated by experts, “History of Baghdad” offers a research-based perspective over 9th century Baghdad and the Abbasid Empire, tackling pre-conceptions and clichés often ...