Al-Musta'sim, the last Abbasid caliph in Baghdad, proved no match for Hulegu's Mongol forces when they attacked Baghdad. |
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The Abbasid caliphs decided to adopt a more deliberate approach to the cultural and intellectual growth of the empire. |
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The Abbasid Dynasty established its capital at Baghdad, near the old Sassanian capital. |
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Nor was the political dynamism of the Abbasid empire's smaller successor states by any means exhausted. |
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Najaf's founding as a city dates back to 791, when the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid supposedly passed through during a hunt. |
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During the Abbasid period, when Islam's foundations were developed, leading scholars and thinkers were exclusively male. |
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He also elaborated on the large number of legal verdicts and judgements pronounced during the Abbasid period. |
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Their value as gifts was established as early as 802 when the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid sent an elephant to Charlemagne. |
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In 762 AD the new rulers, called the Abbasid caliphs, founded a new capital city on the river Tigris. |
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The revolution that brought the Abbasid family to power prompted a period of medieval prosperity for Iraq. |
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When al-Musta'sim, the Abbasid caliph, opposed her reign, the sultana abdicated and married Aybek. |
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Shiites highlighted the Arab roots of Shiism and defended Shiite poets of the Abbasid period whom Sunni writers depicted as shuubis. |
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Under the Abbasid caliphs who made it their capital in AD 762, it was a walled centre of culture and learning. |
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The Shiite Muslims subsequently established the Abbasid as the caliph. |
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In 1055 they entered Baghdad on the invitation of the Abbasid caliph. |
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On the reverse of the coin, is the caliph's name, inscribed: al-Musta'sim, the last of the Abbasid caliphs in Baghdad. |
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This type of design is typical of the Abbasid period and can also be found on stucco wall panels. |
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This decorative style goes back to Abbasid stuccoes and wood carvings in Iraq. |
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A group of Abbasid palaces, parts of which were excavated during the 1950s and labelled with the letters A, B, C and D, are found in the region. |
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The great calligrapher, Muhammad ibn Muqla, a vizier at the court of three Abbasid caliphs, was charged with the task of standardising and refining the myriad cursive scripts. |
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He repelled the attacks of the Moguls and the Crusaders and re-instated the Abbasid caliphate in Egypt after the fall of Baghdad. |
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In the Raqqa region one can find fragments of wood that once decorated the formal halls of its Abbasid royal palaces. |
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During the latter Abbasid and Ottoman periods, the itjihad was suppressed. |
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Some of the Abbasid inscribed tombstones in Madaba Archaeological Museum originated from al-Qastal. |
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This also brought the Ayyubids closer to the Abbasid caliphs in Baghdad. |
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During the Abbasid period the city was well-known for its flourishing scientific movement, especially in the fields of medicine and surgery. |
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The wooden piece was discovered in the vicinity of the Abbasid palaces in the Raqqa region, and therefore it is assumed that it was made in situ. |
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It had many hand-written books from the Ottoman, Abbasid and Ayyubid periods. |
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However, it was in the medieval era when Baghdad was the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate that the Iraqi kitchen reached its zenith. |
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The Spice trade had brought great riches to the Abbasid Caliphate, and even inspired famous legends such as that of Sinbad the Sailor. |
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The woodcrafts flourished in Egypt during the Umayyad and Abbasid periods, and production included objects such as doors, windows, minbars, inscription bands, dining tables, tribunes and chairs. |
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The monumental inscription and the typography of the individual letters can be compared to other monumental inscriptions that were created in Egypt during the late Abbasid or Fatimid periods. |
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Very similar to the entrances of Abbasid palaces, the military role of this porch is obvious from its machicolations with slits for defence against invaders. |
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Traditional Byzantine glass tokens were generally used as monetary weights, and this use was particularly common among Umayyad and Abbasid caliphs as well as among the Egyptian Tulunids and the Aglabid of North Africa. |
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That's capitalism for you. Correction: We originally wrote that the Abbasid caliphate ruled much of the Middle East from the eight century to the 16th. |
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It is possible that this vessel was produced in the early Abbasid period. |
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The Abbasid period witnessed a cultural and scientific renaissance and archaeologists have discovered many glass finds intended for practical uses. |
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The newly extended residence was also the army-command centre and the administrative centre of the Abbasid Empire where the caliph's treasuries were safeguarded. |
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This capital, with others that are decorated in a very similar way, must have been used for a monumental building, of which little is known, located in the short-lived Abbasid residence of Raqqa. |
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The damaged capitals were replaced by some that were made in the style of the earlier Abbasid ones, especially evident amongst those capitals of the pillars in the central colonnade of the mosque. |
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The same applies to Baghdad, built by Abu Ja'far al-Mansur in 762 as the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate: the course of history and modern development have destroyed all its remains. |
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Substantial development in the pearling industry around the Qatari Peninsula occurred during the Abbasid era. |
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The Mongols destroyed the Abbasid Caliphate and Baghdad's House of Wisdom, which contained countless precious and historical documents. |
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There are other Western copies of Abbasid dinars of the period, but it is not known whether they are English or Frankish. |
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They nominally recognized the Abbasid Caliphate, but were in fact ruling independently from their capital in Zabid. |
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Although they were recognized by the Abbasid Caliphate in Baghdad, they ruled no more than Zabid and four districts to its north. |
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After the fall of Baghdad in 1258, a few of Abbasid princes fled to Syria and Egypt. |
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Even Abbasid Arabs assisted the Tang in putting down An Lushan's rebellion. |
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If the revolt had been led by slaves, they would have lacked the necessary resources to combat the Abbasid government for as long as they did. |
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The empire was initially defeated by the Rashidun Caliphate, which was succeeded by the Umayyad Caliphate, followed by the Abbasid Caliphate. |
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Abbasid caliphs followed the Sassanid and Sasanian influences are obvious in political, social and many affairs of life of Abbasids. |
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The city was abandoned in the 10th century following the changes that saw the decline of the Abbasid caliphate, notably the revolt of the Qarmatians. |
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The first Mamluks served the Abbasid caliphs in 9th century Baghdad. |
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Although they had fought at Talas, on June 11, 758, an Abbasid embassy arrived at Chang'an simultaneously with the Uyghur Turks bearing gifts for the Tang Emperor. |
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It was also part of the Median, Achaemenid, Hellenistic, Parthian, Sassanid, Roman, Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbasid, Ayyubid, Mongol, Safavid, Afsharid, and Ottoman empires. |
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This practice continued well into the Abbasid era of the Caliphate. |
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He offers examples of the Abbasid struggle first to treat the Umayyads as enemies, then to uphold the legitimacy of their caliphate to counter Alid claims to the contrary. |
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