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 ...