Who were the three great Muslim “gunpowder” kingdoms that dominated the world after 1600 AD? How did Mughals - who called ...

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If there ever should be a united Arabia the imperial centre would swing over from Damascus to Baghdad as inevitably as it did more than a thousand years ago, when the Abbasid Caliphate replaced the ...

A Tale of Two Cities In the grand historical narrative of the Islamic world, two cities have stood out as dominant forces: Baghdad, the intellectual, cultural, and scientific hub of the Islamic Golden ...

During the Rashidun Caliphate ... Later in the Abbasid era, as described by Al Maqrizi, Eid became grander, particularly in Baghdad and Cairo, where there were colourful markets, musical ...

The 7.7-magnitude earthquake that wreaked havoc on Myanmar on Friday (March 28) may have released energy equivalent to more than 300 atomic bomb explosions, according to a geologist. Talking to US ...

It said the caliphate is the only path to ‘real liberation’, while the organisation’s Bangladesh chief even demanded the ban be lifted by the interim government. HuT-B also hit the headlines for ...

(AP Photo/Dita Alangkara) An Iraqi woman shops for clothes ahead of Eid al-Fitr at the Shorjah market in central Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, March 27, 2025. Eid al-Fitr marks the end of the holy fasting ...

IS seized large swathes of Syrian and Iraqi territory in the early years of Syria’s civil war, declaring a cross-border “caliphate” in 2014. US-backed Kurdish-led forces in Syria ...

Before joining Raw Story, Brad Reed spent eight years writing about technology at BGR.com and Network World. Prior to that, he wrote freelance stories for political publications such as AlterNet ...

The jug, featuring camel decorations, offers insight into the significance of camels during the Abbasid period (9th-10th centuries CE). Horvat Anim site in Yatir forest – Developed by KKL for ...