Though little remembered in the west today, the Abbasids reigned for five centuries. They oversaw an era of Islamic military dominance... city-building… brilliant scholarship, and technological ...

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 ...

Islamic teachings and culture spread across the world along ... and translated books from across the known world. In Baghdad, the Abbasid caliph created a centre of learning which was known ...

“The Abbasid Empire and Baghdad in particular had a culture of writing and books," says Dr Maaike van Berkel, associate professor in Medieval History at Amsterdam University. Van Berkel who ...

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Iraq was once the center of the Abbasid Caliphate ... It flourished in trade, culture, and innovation, becoming a beacon of progress in education and technology. Baghdad, its capital, was the ...