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

Credit: Aliesin / Rowanwindwhistler / Wikimedia Commons Starting in 861, the Abbasid caliphate went through one of the typical conflicts that accompanied each change of caliph: the period known as the ...

Abbasid Caliphate (750–1258) Cue political strife and uprising and subsequently the Umayyads caliphate was taken over by the Abbasid dynasty, who made their capital Baghdad.

“We do a disservice to the Abbasid caliphate to judge it as an empire,” El-Hibri emphasises, “it may be more pertinent to view it as an Islamic political institution.” The moral imperative of being ...

Gold coins dating to the Abbasid Caliphate in Tel Aviv on August 1. HEIDI LEVINE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images It’s a curious fact of human nature that time and again, teenagers and young people are ...

In 836CE, Abbasid caliph al-Mu’tasim ordered the construction of a new capital city on the east bank of the Tigris River, in modern-day Iraq. Since 762, al-Mu’tasim’s predecessors had ruled ...

A rare stash of pure gold coins from the Abbasid Caliphate period, dated around 1,100 years ago, was uncovered by young volunteers in an archaeological excavation carried out by the Israel ...