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 view of the foundation society under the Prophet ...

However IS has also sought to draw legitimacy by branding the territory it controls as a "caliphate ... "Under the Abbasid caliphs, who made Baghdad their capital in 762 CE, the Islamic empire ...

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’s easy to understand why the battle of Talas in 751 between the Abbasid Caliphate’s Arab-Persian army and the Chinese army is often said to be one of the most important battles in Central ...

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 during the Golden Age of Islam. A cache of ancient golden coins was found buried in a clay jar in Israel. Photo by Yoli Shwartz ...