In The Golden Road, Dalrymple proposes that India had a role in shaping and reshaping the ancient and medieval world ... helped plan Baghdad as a circular city, probably inspired by the mandala.

"It was not finished, not polished, but it was there," he adds. "This is Medieval Baghdad like you've never seen before and like he's never seen before. It was so emotional. He's spent his life ...

Now, the video game company Ubisoft has promised to bring medieval Baghdad back to life as the setting for Assassin’s Creed: Mirage, the latest in a franchise of action-based stealth games ...

ufis in Medieval Baghdad: Agency and the Public Sphere in the Late Abbasid Caliphate by Atta Muhammad focuses on a significant aspect of medieval history that has been overlooked by historians and ...

One of the most anticipated video game titles of 2023, Assassin's Creed Mirage , puts the spotlight on medieval Islamic civilization ... years of in ninth-century Baghdad, capital of the Abbasid ...

Anderson; Dr. Vanessa Van Renterghem, specialist of medieval Baghdad; and Dr. Ali Olomi, a scholar of Islamic history. Ubisoft also worked a few institutions like The David Collection, a museum in ...

Little of medieval Baghdad remains today. In the 13th century, the city was sacked by the Mongols and mostly destroyed. To my mind, though, this very absence of archaeological evidence from the ninth ...