This history of the Abbasid Caliphate from its foundation in 750 and golden age under Harun al-Rashid to the conquest of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258 examines the Caliphate as an empire and ...

The reigns of the caliph Harun al-Rashid and his successor al-Ma'mun have long been viewed as the golden age ... while ostensibly presenting a history loyal to the 'Abbasid dynasty. This is an ...

During the Abbasid Caliphate (AD750 -1258), Baghdad ... It was created by Caliph Harun Al-Rashid (ruled AD754 -775) and his son Al-Ma'mun (ruled AD813 - 833). It had a big library and even an ...

The enduring impact of war, poverty and neoliberal transformation are visible everywhere. Late Ottoman areas of ...

It coincides with the exchange of embassies between the emperor Charlemagne and the Abbasid caliph, Harun al-Rashid. Among the gifts from Harun was an actual elephant called Abu al ‘Abbas ...

In other cities across the new Islamic world, Muslim patrons hired these men. The caliph Al-Ma’mun of the Abbasid dynasty in Baghdad put Hunayn ibn Ishaq in charge of the translators at the city ...

Pakistan's government appears to crack down on financing for proscribed groups, but will the policy make a difference?

Baghdad, founded in 762 AD by Abbasid caliph Abu Jaafar al-Mansur along ... The Baghdad municipality's next focus will be Al-Rashid Street, inaugurated in 1916. "It's the soul of old Baghdad ...