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No one was ever sentenced to 500 lashes for anything during the period of the rightly guided caliphs.
The Abbasid caliphs decided to adopt a more deliberate approach to the cultural and intellectual growth of the empire.
In the same century, the Buyids, a Persian clan that was also Shi'ite in loyalty, managed to take over the ailing Abassid caliphs in Baghdad.
The caliphs ruled that couples should not be separate for more than 4 months without permission, and if they were it was grounds for divorce.
There had been a cult of gastronomy at the court of the Sasanian Empire and the caliphs of Baghdad gratefully adopted it.
For the next 1,300 years, a succession of Arab, Mameluke, and Ottoman caliphs, beys, and sultans ruled the country.
Under the Abbasid caliphs who made it their capital in AD 762, it was a walled centre of culture and learning.
Ansari depicts the history of the caliphs as a sordid one of oppression and skullduggery.
Ali's supporters in Iraq did not accept the authority of the Umayyad caliphs and chose their own spiritual leaders called Imams.
The first of these Caliphs was al-Aziz, who was the first of the Fatimid caliphs to begin his reign in Egypt.
In the early 7th century, Muhammad and successive caliphs, took up the Arabic custom of making raids against their enemies.
They adjoin the Alhambra Palace, those stately pleasure domes that the Nasrid caliphs decreed should represent paradise on earth.
In 762 AD the new rulers, called the Abbasid caliphs, founded a new capital city on the river Tigris.
Early Umayyad caliphs and some of the Abbasids who supplanted them employed the title khalifat Allah.
The first four caliphs succeeded by acclamation, in accordance with tribal custom.
This also brought the Ayyubids closer to the Abbasid caliphs in Baghdad.
An ample reference section at the end of the book contains lists of rulers including emperors, ecclesiastics, caliphs, khans, and kings of Serbia.
Sometimes the names of Fatima, her sons Hasan and Husayn, the first four caliphs and the signs of the zodiac are encountered.
The Omayyad dynasty of caliphs ruled from Damascus until 750, when Shiite Muslims, who descended from the caliph Ali, massacred the Omayyad family.
The celebrated scholar and calligrapher Ibn Muqla, who served three caliphs of Baghdad as prime minister and died on July 20,941 AD, copied the Quran in the early Naskh style.
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This Mahommed, the father of the two first Abbasid caliphs, was a man of unusual ability and great ambition.
The eclat which the Moorish caliphs shed upon Spain from the tenth to the thirteenth century is well known.
Although they were hard advocate of Abbasid caliphs, they are completely independent and their seigniory was in the form of domination.
This boy is going to get away the favors from all the Cordovan caliphs.
The third period of caliphal history saw all temporal power wrested from the Caliphs.
Since the palace of the Caliphs of Cordova crumbled, there has never been a palace like it.
This explains the welcome given by Chinese Emperors and Caliphs of Bagdad to all roving minstrels in whose immortality, like flies in amber, they are caught.
They had heard it said that, according to observations made in the time of the Caliphs, her revolution had become accelerated in a certain degree.
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