Both of them show us a culture with science at its heart, as well as being magnificent works of art in their own right. The Abbasid Caliphate – which overthrew the Umayyids in the year 750 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BAGHDAD, April 2 (KUNA) -- Mustansiriya Madrasah (school) is a spacious old complex of ornamented structures maintaining construction features of the Abbasid caliphate. It was established in 1227 by ...

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 ...

Main routes of the Muslim slave trade in Africa. Credit: Aliesin / Rowanwindwhistler / Wikimedia Commons Starting in 861, the Abbasid caliphate went through one of the typical conflicts that ...