Abbasid (Arabic: لعبّاسيّون , al-‘Abbāsīyūn) is the dynastic name generally given to the caliph of Baghdad, the second of the two great Muslim caliphates of the ...
A summary history of the Caliphate, as rulers and later under the protection of the Mamluks in Egypt; from The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
Abbasid dynasty. Family of rulers of the Islamic empire, whose caliphs reigned in Baghdad 750-1258. They were descended from Abbas, the prophet Muhammad's uncle, and some of them ...
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