Pottery and Stone Objects from the Abbasid–Fatimid Periods at Ramla This is the metadata section ... A Cosmopolitan City: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Old Cairo (Oriental Institute Museum ...

Inside the Abbasid palace of Baghdad, built in around 12th century. The caliphates (Islamic states) were governed by a caliph. They were the successors to Muhammad. The first major caliphate was ...

Most of the money dates back to the early Islamic period, when the region was part of the Abbasid caliphate. The coins weigh 845g (30oz) and would have been worth a huge sum when they were buried ...

It drew upon poetic sources that were preserved in both written and oral form from the pre-Islamic period. As the Abbasid caliphate lost power in the ninth century, several Iranian dynasties of ...

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IS militants paraded through Raqqa after the "caliphate" was proclaimed in June ... there and renamed it Raqqa ("the marsh"). In 771, the Abbasid Caliph al-Mansour chose Raqqa to serve as a ...

Photograph by Bridgeman/ACI The Abbasid Caliphate of Baghdad enjoyed a long ... Saint Louis Art Museum Photograph by Bridgeman/ACI A specialist in Islamic History, Víctor Pallejà de Bustinza ...

Now, walking through the backrooms of the Nairobi National Museum, surrounded by million-year-old specimens her family collected, in laboratories her father built, next to an auditorium with her ...

You can enter the Museum through any of our three main entrances. The nearest Tube station is South Kensington. It’s about a five-minute walk from both our Central Entrance via our East Gate and our ...

Dale, Stephen F. 1996. The Poetry and Autobiography of theBâbur-nâma. The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 55, Issue. 3, p. 635. Van Kley, Edwin J. Tolmacheva, M. A ...