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Syria was once a Christian nation, then how did it become centre of Islam? Read the untold truth here
At the same time, the Umayyad caliphs made Damascus their capital. Apart from this, the Umayyad rulers had built many buildings like Abd al-Malik Palace and Umayyad Mosque. The Abbasid caliphs ...
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Samarra Archaeological City
The ancient capital of Samarra dating from 836-892 provides outstanding evidence of the Abbasid Caliphate which was the major Islamic empire of the period, extending from Tunisia to Central Asia. It ...
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The Chinese through Abbasid eyes
More than a millennium ago merchant-informants and officials at the service of the Abbasid caliph, from Baghdad or Basra, put to paper eyewitness accounts of North Europeans (Vikings), Indians ...