Covering almost 20 square miles, Samarra grew up virtually overnight into the proud capital of the Abbasid caliphs ... Hunting also drew one caliph who lived in Baghdad three centuries later.

Explore how Star Wars reflects the Islamic Golden Age through architecture, astronomy, and philosophy rooted in real-world ...

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He's an Islamic scholar, poet, and Sunni extremist who is as much as an enigma to his followers as he is to his enemies. Born Awwad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri al-Samarrai in the central Iraqi city of ...

Hassan's plan to kill the Abbasid Caliph fails. Nourhan runs away on her wedding night and is kidnapped. Hassan is arrested and Abu Ali confronts him that he has betrayed the covenant and threatens to ...

ISIS bomb attacks in Baghdad a new challenge for Iraq’s military Islamic State fighters unleashed a new wave of bombings Tuesday in Baghdad, attacks that have turned the Iraqi capital into a ...