Baghdad, the majestic capital city of the great Abbasid Caliphate. For centuries, the city was a center of culture, learning, trade and religious life. However, in the 1250’s, Hulagu, brother of ...

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.

How did the Abbasid Caliphate end? About 500 years after Baghdad was first constructed and began to prosper, the city and many of its inhabitants were faced with a tragic end.

The previous articles centered on the origins of Shiite Islam and its political history to examine the Shiite basis for ...

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.

Set in the Abbasid Caliphate, founded in the year 750 CE, the game thrust me into a bustling Baghdad filled with color, life, and character.

It was this work that came to Abbasid Baghdad in AD773, and from there, ultimately, to Muslim Spain, and so on to us.

Baghdad, founded in 762 AD by Abbasid caliph Abu Jaafar al-Mansur along the Tigris River, has long been a key hub in Arab and Islamic society.