The Umayyad Caliphate once ruled a vast Islamic empire, but internal divisions, social unrest, and rising opposition led to ...

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 for five centuries. They ...

But Iran was also quick to declare victory despite suffering more than 600 military and civilian casualties by pointing at ...

In a world increasingly divided by ideology, nationalism, and competing global orders, the recent ASEAN-GCC-China Summit held in Kuala Lumpur may appear at first glance to be a pragmatic, even ...

One chapter dedicated to Al-Khayzuran, a Yemeni slave who rose to power in the 700s and reigned from Baghdad over the Abbasid Caliphate, explains how she became influential in her husband’s and ...

Following this period, came the Abbasid Era, whose caliphs ruled the empire from Baghdad (750-1258). The caliph Al-Maamoun visited Egypt in order to suppress a Coptic rebellion in 832, and while ...

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Gulbadan Begum was the daughter of the founder of the Mughal Empire. She is the only Mughal woman known to have ...

Eager to break away from this powerful empire, Almish sought help from the Abbasids, asking the caliph to send a dignitary to educate him and his people in Islam, help establish a mosque, and build a ...

Since the author is a well-known specialist in Abbasid history, it is not surprising that he provides a detailed survey of Abbasid Caliphate (fl. from 750 to 1258) under three separate chapters, ...