CE, and the Abbasid Caliphate is at the height of its power, stretching from India to North Africa. With over half a million inhabitants, its capital city of Madinat al-Salaam, also known as Baghdad, is the largest in the Islamic Empire, possibly the world. And it's only 30 years old...
”The Ottoman Empire lay at our feet dismembered and impotent, its capital and Caliph at the mercy of our... byislamciv June 13, 2020 Leaders around the Messenger: Ubaadah ibn As-Saamit From the first pledge of Al-Aqaba to the first naval expedition, a lifelong leader who Umar said...
and the Abbasid Caliphate is at the height of its power, stretching from India to North Africa. With over half a million inhabitants, its capital city of Madinat al-Salaam, also known as Baghdad, is the largest in the Islamic
In the mid-third century B.C., the Parthian Empire was formed on the contemporary Irano-Turkmenian border; by the mid-second century it ruled all Iran. The importance of the city-states declined. With the king, councils of nobles and Magi played a major role. The dominant religion was ...
Scholars flocked to it from all parts of the Islamic empire. For here was to be found the greatest existing area of opportunity and reward. Every past civilization-Greek, Persian, Hindu, and Egyptian-made its contribution to the rapidly growing universal culture of Islam. It was a period of...
In recent years I’ve written 14 articles dealing with terrorism/counter-terrorism and national security strategy (in addition toan entire book on Middle Eastern counter-insurgency, as practiced by the Ottoman Empire and drawing lessons for US policy today): ...
Constantinople, and after the Conquest Fatih built a külliye there. Thenceforth when a sultan came to the throne he was girded with the sword of Osman Gazi at Eyüp’s tomb – a ceremony equivalent to coronation, which continued down to the end of the Ottoman Empire. (Freely,Istanbul, ...
Following Muhammad’s death in 632 AD, the Sharia laws became mature along with the expanding Muslim Empire until it reached its full development during the Abbasid Caliphate (750–1258). Most Islamic communities no longer consider “Ijtihad” (independent reasoning) as a valid mode of legal ...
It is 791 CE, and the Abbasid Caliphate is at the height of its power, stretching from India to North Africa. With over half a million inhabitants, its capital city of Madinat al-Salaam, also known as Baghdad, is the largest in the Islamic Empire, possibly the world. And it's only ...
In later centuries, a code was drawn up embodying the principles of futuwwa—brotherhood, loyalty, love and honour—that produced a class of spiritual Muslim warriors who protected the boundaries of the Islamic empire. The first caliph to create an order of noble Muslim knights was al-Nasir ...