Directory of Abbasid Resources

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Taking advantage of widespread discontent with Ummayad rule, descendants of al-Abbas brought about the end of the Ummayad Caliphate in the East. The capital of the Caliphate moved to Baghdad, Iraq. Caliph Abu-al-Abbas and his descendants reigned from 750 to 1258, when Baghdad fell to the Mongols. From 945, they did not rule as such, but were "under the protection" of the Buwayhids, and later the Seljuks.

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Resources in This Category

• Abbasid Caliphs

  http://www.friesian.com/islam.htm#abbas
  Part of a longer article on the history of Islam; outlines the Abbasid caliphate, independent and alongside other dynasties, then under the protection of the Seljuks until the death of Abdullah al-Musta'sim and the start of the Khanid dynasty.

• Abbasids

  http://i-cias.com/e.o/abbasids.htm
  Summary article of the family which formed the last Arab Caliphates; also covers their decline, until only symbolic value remained. From Encyclopaedia of the Orient

• Al-Mansur 712 - 775

  http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/people_n2/ppersons4_n2/almansur.html
  Brief profile of the second Abbasid Caliph.

• Baghdad: Metropolis of the Abbasid Caliphate

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/med/wiet.html
  Chapter 5 of a book by Gaston Wiet describes the intellectual, cultural and scientific ferment of the Abbasid court.

• Egypt: History - Abbasid Period

  http://www.touregypt.net/habbasid.htm
  Covers the impact of Abbasid rule on Egypt, and the rise of the Tulunids.

• Medieval Sourcebook : Abul Hasan Ali Al-Masu'di (ca. 895?-957 CE)

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/masoudi.html
  "The Book of Golden Meadows" was written about 940 CE; these excerpts cover the lives of several Abbasid caliphs.

• The 'Abbasid caliphate

  http://www.angelfire.com/nt/Gilgamesh/abasid1.html
  An account of the dynasty, with particular reference to their impact on the city of Baghdad.

• The Art of the Abbasid Period (750-1258 A.D.)

  http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/abba/hd_abba.htm
  An online exhibition from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) offers a profile of the caliphate, and illustrations of their cultural and artistic achievement.

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