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The Abbasid Caliphate first centered its government in Kufa, modern-day Iraq, but in 762 the caliph al-Mansur founded the city of Baghdad, near the ancient Babylonian capital city of Babylon and Sassanid city of Ctesiphon. Baghdad became the center of science, culture, and invention in what became known as the Golden Age of Islam.
The choice of layout may have been a deliberate challenge to the Abbasid Caliphate. [23] The Fatimid architecture of Ifriqiya and Egypt followed Abbasid styles, as shown by the Great Mosque of Mahdiya and the Azhar Mosque in Cairo. [24] Even Umayyad buildings of the Iberian peninsula show Abbasid influence. [12]
English: Map of the heartland of the Abbasid Caliphate, namely the regions of northern Iraq and eastern al-Jazira, in the late ninth century AD. The principal sources of this map are al-Tabari, volumes 33 through 38; Ibn Khurradadhbih, pp. 14-15, 29-30, 39-40, 53-54, 67-70 (French translation); Le Strange, Maps II and III.
It maps and describes the major trade routes of the time within the Muslim world, and discusses distant trading regions such as Japan, Korea, and China. [1] It was written around 870 CE, during the reign of Al-Muʿtamid of the Abbasid Caliphate , while its author was Director of Posts and Police for the Abbasid province of Jibal in modern-day ...
53. |Date=1911 map by William R. Shepherd (12 June 1871 – 7 June 1934). 18:07, 20 March 2022: 900 × 413 (647 KB) The Story of Marjaan: Added the conquered parts in Northwestern India by Muhammad bin Qasim. The map can be found on File:QASIM.PNG. It depicts the largest extent of the territory conquered by Qasim during the Umayyads.
The Round City of Baghdad is the original core of Baghdad, built by the Abbasid Caliph al-Mansur in 762–766 CE as the official residence of the Abbasid court. Its official name in Abbasid times was City of Peace (Arabic: مدينة السلام, romanized: Madīnat as-Salām).
The Abbasid dynasty or Abbasids (Arabic: بنو العباس, romanized: Banu al-ʿAbbās) were an Arab dynasty that ruled the Abbasid Caliphate between 750 and 1258. They were from the Qurayshi Hashimid clan of Banu Abbas, descended from Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib .
The Ushrusaniyya (Arabic: ٱلْأُشْرُوسَنْيَّة, romanized: al-Ushrūsaniyya) were a regiment in the regular army of the Abbasid Caliphate.Formed in the early ninth century A.D., the unit consisted of soldiers who were originally from the region of Ushrusana in Transoxiana.