Discover the captivating story of Medieval Baghdad, once the shining beacon of the Islamic Golden Age, through the lens of ...

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

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By 4 a.m ., a breeze had begun to blow across the stadium near the center of Baghdad, but Qaid al-Sheikhli was still sweating ...

Drone photograph looking west showing several linear ridge features within the study area. Credit: P.J. Brown et al. The harshness of agricultural labor in these swampy lands may have been, according ...

It’s an opportune moment for the writer and historian Johan Norberg to choose seven golden ages and interweave their rise and fall into a history of human progress: Athens, Rome, the Abbasid caliphate ...

One chapter dedicated to Al-Khayzuran, a Yemeni slave who rose to power in the 700s and reigned from Baghdad over the Abbasid Caliphate, explains how she became influential in her husband’s and ...

In a world increasingly divided by ideology, nationalism, and competing global orders, the recent ASEAN-GCC-China Summit held ...

Curl up this winter with a gripping account of tech geniuses, tales of Russian arms deals or Xi Jinping’s father. There’s ...

A Swedish historian charts the rise and fall of golden ages around the world over the past three millennia, ranging from Athens to the Anglosphere via the Abbasid caliphate.

Officials at the al Hol camp have long warned about a lack of rehabilitation facilities to de-radicalise the young who are recruited by ISIS as "the next cubs of the caliphate".

The rebellion lasted for more than a decade until the Abbasid state regained control of the region in 883 A.D. Many descendants of those enslaved people now live in the southern port city of Basra ...