In 1258, the Mongol Empire unleashed one of the most devastating sieges in history, bringing down the heart of the Islamic ...

Epic History. Baghdad Burns - The Fall of the Abbasid Caliphate. Posted: April 2, 2025 | Last updated: April 2, 2025. They ruled for 500 years and led the Islamic world into a golden age.

“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 ...

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. This caliphate ...

The caliphate, in its Abbasid, Andalusian and Shiite Fatamid expressions, was a glorious thing to be sure. But each of these empires was taxed by periods of internecine strife, ...

Administrative division of the Abbasid Caliphate in the mid-9th century AD. Credit: Cattette / Wikimedia Commons Ali ibn Muhammad, skillfully combining Kharijism with Zaydism, began his Friday sermons ...

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 ...

In 1924, Turkish leader Kemal Ataturk officially abolished the Ottoman caliphate. Today, most Western discussions of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), the extremist group that has declared ...

CENTRAL ISRAEL: Israeli youths have unearthed hundreds of gold coins stashed away in a clay vessel for more than a thousand years. The treasure was discovered on Aug 18, the Israel Antiquities ...