They ruled for 500 years and led the Islamic world into a golden age. Then in a single siege, Baghdad was reduced to ruins ...

Iraq was once the center of the Abbasid Caliphate and a hub of knowledge until the 15th century. It flourished in trade, ...

Fewer than 1,000 US troops would remain in the country in order to retain limited oversight over ISIS prisons controlled by ...

The caliph Al-Ma’mun of the Abbasid dynasty in Baghdad put Hunayn ibn Ishaq in charge of the translators at the city’s famous Bayt al-Hikma, or House of Wisdom. By the 900s, drawing from a ...

Over the past three decades, the Arab world has experienced several events that have significantly reshaped its societies, ...

Festival is a reflection of the transformation achieved during Ramadan Eid Al Fitr is not merely the conclusion of fasting ...

Al-Farabi, profoundly inspired by the works of Aristotle and Plato, endeavours to forge a political philosophy that ...

He also admires the Abbasids, the dynasty of caliphs who founded Baghdad in the 8th century. He models his justice system after theirs — using beheadings, stonings, and crucifixions.

Iraq was once the center of the Abbasid Caliphate and a hub of knowledge ... becoming a beacon of progress in education and technology. Baghdad, its capital, was the most prosperous and powerful ...

The landmark visit to Baghdad by Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad ... had killed Islamic State (IS) group “deputy caliph” Abdullah Maki Musleh Al-Rifai, aka Abu Khadija. Al-Rifai served as ...