The Abbasid Caliphate once ruled a Golden Age of knowledge and power, but it all came crashing down when Baghdad burned ...

New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place ...

The world will not come to an end,” said the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), “ until a man from my family (Ahlulbayt) and of my name ...

Baghdad falls to the Mongols as the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed and tens of thousands are slaughtered. 1542: Catherine ...

There is a perceptible Roman bias in the teaching of law, but the ancient Greeks were actually also quite influential.

From grand cities to groundbreaking discoveries, the Abbasid Caliphate transformed the Islamic world. Yet, even the most powerful empires must face decline.

In Islam, the production and promotion of knowledge in Islam serves a higher purpose — it is neither a self-serving pursuit of academic advancement nor an abstract form of individualistic ...

“During the Abbasid era, [the Kaaba] was draped once with white and once in red, while the Seljuk Sultan covered it with yellow brocade. The Abbasid Caliph Al-Nassir changed the Kiswa’s color to green ...

Now about 32, he may have been considered too young to succeed Muhammad. The inner circle in Medina chose Abu Bakr, the Prophet’s father-in-law and one of his oldest friends and allies, as caliph (in ...

The Abbasid Caliphate succeeded the Umayyads after defeating them at the Battle of the Zab, and they stamped their authority on the Islamic world by moving the capital to their power base in ...

Most members of the Umayyad Dynasty were slaughtered after the overthrow, but one branch of the family survived as rulers of a much-reduced kingdom in Spain. The Abbasid Caliphate succeeded the ...