Many years ago, the great city of Baghdad was ruled by a wise and kind Caliph. In the afternoons, the Caliph liked to walk through the marketplace. One day, he noticed a strange box being sold by ...

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 aim of his study was to present an account of Baghdad under the Abbasid Caliphate which included not only the record of conflict and political history of the city, but as much as possible of its ...

And one night I overheard the Caliph dictating to a scribe – he was setting a puzzle to find the brightest minds in Baghdad. And this was his riddle: A man sends his servant to the market to buy ...

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 ...

By the eighth century, Baghdad was the capital of a sprawling empire, a centre of science and learning, and peerless in architectural splendour. ‘By God, I am passing through a city, and no city more ...

Most importantly, Baghdad serves as the backdrop for so many stories within 1001 Nights – its ancient streets, riverbanks, and channels leading to the Caliph’s palace forming the settings for criminal ...

The sailor Sinbad is dragged by two cheaters on board a ship on which the beautiful Sherazade travels, promised to the Caliph of Baghdad. Adventurous fairytale inspired by the "A Thousand and One ...

In the 8th century Middle East, a new dynasty seized control of one of the world’s greatest empires – the Islamic Caliphate.