The Abbasid Caliphate ruled all of West Asia and North Africa from 750 AD until about 1000, when it began to weaken. “Baghdad was one of the biggest cities in the world,” says Dr Maaike van ...

It is fair to say that a number of present-day Islamic and Islamist movements draw inspiration from the Abbasid caliphate as much as their reductionist ... force in the Muslim world from 750 to 1258 ...

The original caliphate existed from 632 AD, when Mohammed died and ... That ended, very roughly, around the year 1000 for two reasons. First, the Abbasid Caliphate, which really was the ...

The coins were discovered buried in a clay jar and date back over a thousand years, to the Abbasid Caliphate. Gold coins dating to the Abbasid Caliphate in Tel Aviv on August 1. HEIDI LEVINE/POOL ...

The coins date to the Abbasid Caliphate, which ruled 1,100 years ago ... it had been buried inside a clay jar for safekeeping more than 1,000 years ago. “I dug in the ground and when I swept ...

A mosque which dates back to Islam’s Early Golden Age of the Abbasid Caliphate, 1,000 years ago discovered Abu Dhabi: Archaeologists from the Department of Culture and Tourism in Abu Dhabi have ...

The currency appears to date to the ninth century, when the Abbasid Caliphate controlled much of the Near East and North Africa. “This is one of the earliest known caches from this period (late ...