We treat the Arabian Nights as exotic fiction, but in fact they tell us a lot about real life in the court of the Abbasid caliphs, the supreme rulers of the vast Islamic Empire that in the eighth ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Mongols stormed Baghdad in 1258, leaving the mighty Abbasid Caliphate in ruins. A city once known for its wealth and knowledge was reduced to ashes in a brutal conquest. Voting ends in ...

Arab countries marked 80 years since the founding of the League of Arab States, established in Cairo in 1945 by seven founding ...

If you’ve been on Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube in lately, you’ve probably heard the viral "Tab Tabi Tab" Arabic melody ...

When he fled from his mayors of the palace and became a shadow in Egypt, that pretension was maintained and was assumed by the Turkish Sultan Selim, when in 1517 he took the Caliphate from the hands ...

Originally built on the site of a Sassanian fire temple, the mosque traces its foundation back to 807 CE (192 AH), when the Abbasid Caliph Harun Al-Rashid ordered its construction. Over time, the ...

We treat the Arabian Nights as exotic fiction, but in fact they tell us a lot about real life in the court of the Abbasid caliphs, the supreme rulers of the vast Islamic Empire that in the eighth ...