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Research Topics on: Abbasid Caliphate

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Encyclopedia Articles on: Abbasid Caliphate

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  • Abbasid
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ABBASID ba sid, a b sid...Muhammad. The Abbasids held the caliphate from 749 to 1258...Umayyad caliphs the Abbasids lived quietly until...The head of the Abbasid family became caliph...early years of Abbasid rule were brilliant...decline of the Abbasids began. Long periods...
     
  • Caliphate
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    CALIPHATE kal ifat , -fit, the rulership...was Damascus. In 750 the Abbasid family, descended from the...the Umayyad family. The Abbasid dynasty (749 1258) is sometimes...Hulagu Khan in 1258, the Abbasids fled to Egypt. The Ottomans...H. Kennedy, The Early Abbasid Caliphate (1981...
     
  • Baghdad
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...west bank of the Tigris by the Abbasid caliph Mansur , who made it his...was moved to Samarra; when the caliphate was returned later in the century...LeStrange, Baghdad During the Abbasid Caliphate (1942, repr. 1983); C. Owles...
     
  • Turkistan
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...of the 8th cent.; first the Umayyad and then the Abbasid caliphate held all of Turkistan. Zoroastrianism was suppressed...the chief religion of Turkistan, was imposed. The Abbasid caliphate weakened in the middle of the 9th cent.; at the...
     
  • Fatimid
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Fatimite imit, dynasty claiming to hold the caliphate on the basis of descent from Fatima , a daughter...name Ubaidallah (Obaidallah) and set up a caliphate in opposition to the Abbasid Caliphate of Baghdad. His execution of Al-Shii caused...
     

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