Indeed this position fell to my most elevated grandfather Sultan Selim Shah son of Bayazid Khan, and the Abbasid Caliph al-Mutawakkil 'ala Allah III gave him it. Indeed the Sultan of the Deccan ...

Others lower the figure, assuming the native population did not exceed forty million. Most of the slaves were of Bantu ethnicity. The Umayyad and Abbasid caliphs bought them to train as soldiers, ...

“The Abbasid shift of the centre of the Caliphate from Syria to Iraq led to a rapid economic decline and drop in population, especially in the cities,” Khouri stressed, adding that the settlement ...

The failure of the rebellion did not mark the end of Alid unrest, but it consolidated the power of the Abbasid dynasty. Isa ibn Musa, the Caliph's nephew, was sent against Medina with 4,000 men, but ...

When the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid suffered from sleeplessness, which was all too often, he did what any sensible caliph would do: he summoned Masrur, his favourite executioner. As readers of The ...

Whenever I think of the Abbasid caliphs of Baghdad, one story about them elbows aside all others in my mind. In the early 840s, Caliph Mutawakkil badly wanted to see a wondrous cedar in the hills of ...

Maira’s grandfather was the descendant and last Amir of the Abbasid Caliphate 750CE; the golden age of learning, literature and art. During the time of Caliph Harun Ul Rashid Abbasi, the famed One ...

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