The palace-city of Samarra, capital of the former Abbasid Caliphate, was home to an advanced industry of glass production and trade, according to a study published August 22, 2018 in the open ...

Asharq Al Awsat Standing tall southeast of Rabigh governorate in Makkah Region and a few kilometers from Miqat Al-Juhfah, the historic Alia Palace is a testament to one of the ancient Hajj pilgrimage ...

In the 8th century Middle East, a new dynasty seized control of one of the world’s greatest empires – the Islamic Caliphate. Though little remembered in the west today, the Abbasids reigned ...

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.

“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 ...

Ja'far ibn Yahya, vizier to caliph Haroun el-Rashid, was one of the most powerful people in the Abbasid caliphate, the empire that ruled a broad swath of central Asia and northern Africa from 750 ...

The apogee of the Abbasid caliphate coincides with the heydays of the Tang Dynasty in China (619-907). In the Accounts imperial China is painted as a highly organised and regulated society.