"This time we have really hit the jackpot." A team of archaeologists in Israel just unearthed a breathtaking mosaic on the ...

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The Umayyad Caliphate once ruled a vast Islamic empire, but internal divisions, social unrest, and rising opposition led to ...

Umayyad & Abbasid Civilizations: A Qur’anic Backbone The Umayyads ruled from Damascus and extended Islamic rule into North Africa and Spain (Andalus).The Abbasids, despite internal power ...

With the creation of the large Islamic empires, the trade in the Umayyad and Abbasid periods reached very large volumes and opened the markets even beyond the Indian Ocean, finally reaching China as ...

the Umayyad rulers had built many buildings like Abd al-Malik Palace and Umayyad Mosque. The Abbasid caliphs moved the capital from Damascus to Baghdad in modern day Iraq. In 750 AD, the Abbasid ...

The Abbasid pottery was numerous and found almost in all the excavated squares, mixed in most cases with Byzantine and Umayyad pottery; this, due in part, to the nature of the occupation of the ...

The Abbasid pottery was numerous and found almost in all the excavated squares, mixed in most cases with Byzantine and Umayyad pottery; this, due in part, to the nature of the occupation of the site ...

Młynarczyk noted that the general remark is that all the Roman structures, the traces identified within the site, were extensively reused throughout all the later phases: Byzantine-Umayyad, ...

However, as a unified Islamic state emerged under the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates, a distinctly Islamic form of art was also emerging. But by this time, Islam had also moved far beyond its ...