28 results for “abbasid”
Clear filterThe Abbasid Revolution (al-dawla al-'Abbasiyya) was the most consequent...
...ilitary confrontation between the Umayyad Caliphate and the Abbasid revolutionary forces. The last Umayyad caliph, Marwan II ib...
...raysh (Falcon of the Quraysh), was the sole survivor of the Abbasid massacre of the Umayyad family. A young man in his early tw...
... eastern province — ultimately made it the incubator of the Abbasid revolution that ended Umayyad rule.
In 132 AH, the Abbasid revolution overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate, as Abu al-Abbas...
In 145 AH, the Abbasid caliph Abu Ja'far al-Mansur founded Madinat al-Salam — the ...
... al-Rashid (170–193 AH) is widely regarded as the zenith of Abbasid power and prosperity. Under his caliphate, Baghdad flourish...
...he Mihna (inquisition) was one of the gravest deviations in Abbasid history, initiated under Caliph al-Mamun around 218 AH and ...
... commanders gradually accumulated enormous power within the Abbasid state. By the mid-3rd century AH, these commanders had effe...
...e Daylam region — entered Baghdad and seized control of the Abbasid caliphate, leaving the Sunni caliph as a ceremonial figureh...
... ending over a century of Shia political dominance over the Abbasid caliphate. The Abbasid caliph al-Qa'im granted Toghril the ...
...on for centuries to come. Though born after the fall of the Abbasid caliphate, his life and work were shaped entirely by the ca...
...of the greatest catastrophes in Islamic history, ending the Abbasid caliphate that had stood for over five centuries. Scholars,...
...k Sultan Baybars of Egypt invited a surviving member of the Abbasid family to Cairo, where he was installed as caliph in 659 AH...
...a in 370 AH, was the foremost physician and polymath of the Abbasid era. His al-Qanun fi al-Tibb (Canon of Medicine) remained t...
During the reign of Harun al-Rashid, the Abbasid Caliphate maintained significant naval power in the Mediter...
...maili Shia teaching, deliberately established as a rival to Abbasid Sunni institutions. After Salah al-Din (Saladin) overthrew ...
...ang Chinese force under the Korean general Gao Xianzhi. The Abbasid force, recently victorious in overthrowing the Umayyads, me...
...sive engagement that ended Umayyad rule and established the Abbasid Caliphate. The Abbasid revolution had originated in Khurasa...
...astrophic events in Islamic history, bringing to an end the Abbasid Caliphate which had been the symbolic centre of Sunni Islam...
... dynasty ruled for nearly a century until overthrown by the Abbasids in 750 CE.
The Abbasid movement overthrew the Umayyad caliphate, establishing a ne...
The Abbasid army under Ziyad ibn Salih defeated the Chinese Tang Dynast...
Caliph al-Mansur built Baghdad as the new Abbasid capital, calling it Madinat al-Salam (City of Peace). The r...
...sty, captured Baghdad and became the de facto rulers of the Abbasid Caliphate. The Abbasid caliph was reduced to a ceremonial f...
...Tughril Beg entered Baghdad and ended Buwayhid control. The Abbasid caliph granted Tughril the title 'Sultan' and 'King of the ...
...Sa'd al-Harawi traveled to Baghdad to plead for help at the Abbasid court. His emotional appeal brought the congregation to tea...
...ith ink from manuscripts and red with blood. This ended the Abbasid Caliphate in Baghdad.