Inside the Abbasid palace of Baghdad, built in around 12th century. The caliphates (Islamic states) were governed by a caliph. They were the successors to Muhammad. The first major caliphate was ...

It has come to be remembered as Islam’s ‘golden age’. This is the rise and fall of the Abbasid Caliphate. KFC is leaving its ancestral home as parent company moves its corporate office to ...

Gadara, located some 120 km northwest of Amman (Photo courtesy of ACOR) AMMAN — The Abbasid presence at Gadara (modern Umm Qais) was mentioned in the works of Arab mediaeval geographers and scholars.