The Arab Tourism Organization names Baghdad as the Arabic Capital of Tourism 2025, highlighting its rich cultural heritage, ...

In 771, the Abbasid Caliph al-Mansour chose Raqqa to serve as a second capital after Baghdad, and to help him defend north-eastern Syria, known as "al-Jazira". He renamed the town al-Rafiqa ("the ...

Syria is considered to be the center of Islam, but do you know that Syria was once a stronghold of Christianity? Now the ...

This history of the Abbasid Caliphate from its foundation in 750 and golden age under Harun al-Rashid to the conquest of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258 examines the Caliphate as an empire and ...

The political centres switched from Levant and Damascus towards Iraq and Baghdad during the Abbasid period. The accession of the Abbasids to power in 750AD coincided, in its early period, till circa ...

Most of the Abbasid palaces, both in Baghdad and in the new capital Samarra, are now in ruins. But some elements survive. In front of me, I've got a few fragments of painted plaster - they come ...

Such a tour would have been unthinkable in the Iraqi capital through much of ... its value and identity." Baghdad, founded in ...

This great era in Islamic history is known as The Abbasid Dynasty. It was a time of growth and change and the round city of Baghdad was the heart of Arabic and Islamic civilisation. Muhammad ...

After the rise and consolidation of Islamic civilization, one of the Islamic World’s most important and largest cities along with Baghdad and Cairo was the eastern Persian city of Merv (Persian ...