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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...Muhammad. The Abbasids held the caliphate...early years of Abbasid rule were brilliant...decline of the Abbasids began. Long...prestige of the Abbasids, and in 1258...overthrew the Abbasid caliphate. The...
     
  • Mansur, Al- , D. 775, 2d Abbasid Caliph
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    MANSUR, AL- , d. 775, 2d Abbasid caliph al-mansoor Arab.,=the victorious, d. 775, 2d Abbasid caliph (754 75) and founder of the city of Baghdad. His name was in full Abu Jafar abd-Allah al-Mansur. He was brother and successor...
     
  • Arabic Literature
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...wrote their lyric works. Under the Abbasids (750 1258), Hellenic, Syrian, Pahlavi...culture of Baghdad, the new capital of the Abbasids, in the 8th and 9th cent. Philosophy...Literature (1987); J. Ashtiany, ed., Abbasid Belles Lettres (1989); F. Ajami...
     
  • Abu Muslim
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...c.728 755, Persian leader of the Abbasid revolution. By political and religious...raised (747) the black banners of the Abbasids against the ruling Umayyad family. In...Abbas as-Saffah, the head of the Abbasid family, as caliph of Islam. Abu Muslim...
     
  • Marwan II
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...defeated (750) by a combined force of Iraqi, Persian, Shiite , and Abbasid soldiers. Marwan fled, only to be killed by troops under the first caliph of the subsequent Abbasids. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia...
     

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