The Umayyad Caliphate once ruled a vast Islamic empire, but internal divisions, social unrest, and rising opposition led to its dramatic fall. This video explores the key political, religious, and ...

AMMAN — A group of Jordanian archaeologists has uncovered the remains of six ancient mosques that date back to the Umayyad and Abbasid eras in the Kingdom’s Safawi area, one of the researchers said on ...

We explore the history behind the great mosque by following the journey of the renowned Andalusian traveller and poet, Abul Huayn ibn Jubayr ...

The Abbasid Caliphate covered 4.29 million square miles of land - more than 7% of the earth's landmass. The empire had an unknown population number in 750 and claimed Baghdad as its capital.

The Abbasid caliphs moved the capital from Damascus to Baghdad in modern day Iraq. In 750 AD, the Abbasid Caliphs established rule in Syria.

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The presence of Christians in Kuwait is old, dating back to the eras of the Umayyad or Abbasid dynasties. This is confirmed by the inscriptions on ceramic pieces that were recently discovered in ...

Traces of such structures from the Abbasid (750 AD-969 AD) and Fatimid (969 AD-1171 AD) periods are scarce. In the Zarqa Triangle the survey has recovered several dense artefact concentrations dating ...

The Abbasids, who considered themselves more deserving than others due to their kinship to the prophet, waged bloody battles to eradicate the Umayyad dynasty. Once in power, they ruled for 525 years.

The Abbasid pottery was numerous and found almost in all the excavated squares, mixed in most cases with Byzantine and Umayyad pottery; this, due in part, to the nature of the occupation of the site ...