Ethiopian writer and translator based in Qatar. All praise is due to Allah, Subhānahu wa Ta‘ālā—Who molded His beloved ...

Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq (PBUH), the sixth Imam of the Shia, was martyred on the 25th of Shawwal, 14 A.H., during the reign of the Abbasid Caliph Abu Jafar Mansoor. His Imamate lasted 34 years, coinciding ...

My mind had drifted to a place that has long captivated both historians and tourists – a city that took forty years to build, the dream project of a ruler: Medina az-Zahara (the city of Zahara), ...

Under the Abbasid dynasty, based in Baghdad ... (644–656), to that of ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān (685–705), or the Umayyad dynasty (657–750). Some scholars propose that the definitive ...

as well as the Umayyad and Abbasid periods. The third chapter of the book dwells on the economic advantages of Qatar in the areas of agriculture and livestock, trade and commerce, and industries ...

The period of his Imamat coincided with the most revolutionary and eventful era of Islamic history which saw the downfall of the Ummayad Caliphate and the rise of the Abbasid Caliphate.