Abbasid Era In Gadara: Economic Prosperity, Earthquake Devastation, Urban Transformation
AMMAN - The Abbasid presence at Gadara (modern Umm Qais) was mentioned in the works of Arab mediaeval geographers and ...
Cambridge University Press4 年
The Abbasid Caliphate
The period of the Abbasid Caliphate (750–1258) has long been recognized as the formative period of Islamic civilization with its various achievements in the areas of science, literature, and culture.
BBC7 年
Raqqa: Syrian capital of the IS 'caliphate'
In 771, the Abbasid Caliph al-Mansour chose Raqqa to ... By 2004, Raqqa was the sixth largest city in Syria, with a predominantly Sunni Arab population of 220,000. Raqqa was a centre of the ...