These novels blend the substantiated with the surreal, offering new ways to understand the past through magic, monsters and ...

Inside the Abbasid palace of Baghdad, built in around 12th century. The caliphates ... The Islamic Golden age began during the Abbasid caliphate which was centred around the city of Baghdad.

With its 13th instalment released on Thursday, Assassin’s Creed Mirage attempts to immerse players in Iraq’s 9th-century Baghdad during the rule of the Abbasid Caliphate, when it was one of ...

“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 ...