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Abbasids, dynasty of caliphs who ruled the caliphate of Islam from 750 until 1258. All of these caliphs were descended from Abbas, a member of the...

Iraq : History : Arab Conquest and the Abbasid Caliphate

War between the Sasanian kings and the Byzantine Empire led in AD 627 to a Byzantine invasion and the sack of Ctesiphon. Devastated and leaderless,...

Abbas (c. 566-c. 653), paternal uncle of the Prophet Muhammad and of the fourth caliph, Ali. His full name was Al-Abbas ibn al-Muttalib. A rich...

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- member of Islamic dynasty: a member of a dynasty that ruled an Islamic empire from Baghdad from 750 to 1258.

	Advertisement Windows Live® Search Results Abbasid Caliphate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Abbasid Caliphate (Arabic: العبّاسيّون ‎, al-‘Abbāsīyūn) was the third of the Islamic Caliphates of the Islamic Empire. The Caliphate is one of the high ... Abbasid - Wiktionary Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary Abbasid definition of Abbasid in the Free Online Encyclopedia. Abbasid (əbă`sĭd, ă`bəsĭd) or Abbaside (–sīd, –sĭd), Arab family descended from Abbas Abbas (äbäs`, ăbäs`, ăb`əs), d. 653, uncle of Muhammad the Prophet and of ... See all search results in Windows Live® Search Results

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