The Abbassid Caliphate ruled from Baghdad and was considered the Islamic Golden Age, from 750 to 1258, fostering great cultural and scientific growth.
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The Abbasid Caliphate emerged from the collapse of the Umayyad Dynasty in 750. Its reign saw numerous great achievements that sent Islamic civilization to its golden age.
The Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid mingling with his people incognito. Liebig educational card, from a series on monarchs amongst their people, late 19th or early 20th century.
Highlights 1-4 Players 12 Years and Up Board Games Strategy and war games Renegade Games Description Scholars of the South Tigris is a new stand-alone game in the South Tigris trilogy set during the height of the Abbasid Caliphate, circa 830 AD. The Caliph has called upon the keenest minds to acquire scientific manuscripts from all over the known world. Players will need to increase their influence in the House of Wisdom, and hire skilled linguists to translate the foreign scrolls into Arabic. In this Golden Age of wisdom and knowledge, be mindful not to neglect one in pursuit of the other.FeaturesNew stand-alone game in the South Tigris trilogy!The combination of bag building, dice placement, color mixing, and "workers for mitigation" creates an extremely unique experience at the tableInteresting decisions each turn as you begin to build your engine and forge your strategic path in the gameThe 6 unique research tracks, and huge variety of scrolls and translators packs hours of replayability into the boxThe shared resource system of scrolls and translators adds a lot of positive interaction and tension between playersIntuitive and easy to use solo mode, with 4 levels of difficulty to compete againstContents Summary100 Opaque Dice15 Translucent Dice56 Workers80 Influence35 Gold50 Silver24 Research Markers1 Neutral Marker4 Player Markers48 Scroll Cards4 Caliph Cards6 Scheme Cards28 Action Cards6 Goal Cards6 Starting Scroll Cards10 Starting Translator Cards10 Resource Cards1 Caliph Setup Card64 Translator Cards2 Solo Reference Cards4 Player Boards1 First Player Marker1 Solo Board1 Main Board4 Bags
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Not too long ago, British sociologist Frank Furedi wrote a piece on the culture wars in the US and UK. He asserted that the culture war was historically “set in motion in Western societies by a powerful impulse to detach the present from the past, which emerged at the turn of the 20th century”. He […]
The Mamluks halted the Mongol charge into the Islamic world of the 13th century, by adopting various tactical battlefield measures.
A look at the rise and fall of the Abbasid Caliphate, which ruled much of the Middle East and North Africa between the years 750 and 1258.
This chart covers the monarchies of Asia (including the Middle East) from 600 CE to present. Includes Byzantine emperors, Chinese emperors, Umayyad & Abbasid caliphs, Japanese emperors, Korean kings, Mongol khans, Persian shahs, Ottoman sultans, Mughal emperors, and much more!
This endlessly informative history brings the classical Islamic world to life In this accessibly written history, Amira K. Bennison contradicts the common assumption that Islam somehow interrupted the smooth flow of Western civilization from its Graeco-Roman origins to its more recent European and American manifestations. Instead, she places Islamic civilization in the longer trajectory of Mediterranean civilizations and sees the 'Abbasid Empire (750-1258 CE) as the inheritor and interpreter of Graeco-Roman traditions. At its zenith the 'Abbasid caliphate stretched over the entire Middle East and part of North Africa, and influenced Islamic regimes as far west as Spain. Bennison's examination of the politics, society, and culture of the 'Abbasid period presents a picture of a society that nurtured many of the "civilized" values that Western civilization claims to represent, albeit in different premodern forms: from urban planning and international trade networks to religious pluralism and academic research. Bennison's argument counters the common Western view of Muslim culture as alien and offers a new perspective on the relationship between Western and Islamic cultures. • Author: Amira K Bennison • ISBN:9780300167986 • Format:Paperback • Publication Date:2010-08-31
Abu Ja'far al Mansur founded Baghdad and called it the City of Peace. However, he was anything but a peaceful man himself.
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The artistic traditions of ancient Iraq, or Mesopotamia, are among the oldest in the world, for it was in this flat, fertile land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that the world's first advanced civilization, that of the Sumerians, arose around 3000 BC. But the long history of Mesopotamian art was marked by change as much as continuity; the region was then as now a center of political conflict, and the Sumerians gave way to a succession of powers both indigenous and foreign, each of which left a cultural imprint. This volume's contributing authors, all art historians and archaeologists specializing in the ancient Near East, provide accessible and lively overviews of the successive phases of this eventful artistic saga. The first two chapters cover the \"classic\" age of the great Mesopotamian city-states, from the pre-Sumerian Ubaid culture to Alexander's conquest of Babylon; the remains of this era range from the fabulous treasures of the royal cemeteries at Ur to the mighty ziggurats of Uruk and Babylon. The third chapter concerns the Greco-Mesopotamian art of the Hellenistic dynasty founded by Alexander's general Seleucus; the ruins of Seleucia, his capital on the Tigris, cover some 1500 acres. The fourth chapter investigates the artistic contributions of the two Persian dynasties, the Parthian and the Sassanid, that dominated the region from the first century BC to the seventh century AD and established the soaring iwan, or vaulted portico, as one of its typical architectural forms. The final chapter is devoted to the area's early Islamic period, during which the Abbasid caliphs (eighth to thirteenth century AD) made Iraq the center of the Islamic world, constructing splendid mosques in their capitals of Baghdad and Samarra and elaborating the fantastic arabesques that have never disappeared from Islamic decorative art. The ancient masterpieces discussed in these chapters are depicted in 217 stunning illustrations, most of them full-color photographs, and appended to the main text is a unique visual guide to Iraq's principal archaeological sites, which provides a further 247 black-and-white photographs. With its authoritative, up-to-date texts and this wealth of illustrations, The Art and Architecture of Mesopotamia is an essential publication for anyone with an interest in the cultural heritage of mankind.
The earliest surviving instance of sustained first-person travel narrative in Arabic Mission to the Volga is a pioneering text of peerless historical and literary value. In its pages, we move north on a diplomatic mission from Baghdad to the upper reaches of the Volga River in what is now central Russia. In this colorful documentary from the tenth century, the enigmatic Ibn Fadlan relates his experiences as part of an embassy sent by Caliph al-Muqtadir to deliver political and religious instruction to the recently-converted King of the Bulghars. During eleven months of grueling travel, Ibn Fadlan records the marvels he witnesses on his journey, including an aurora borealis and the white nights of the North. Crucially, he offers a description of the Viking Rus, including their customs, clothing, body painting, and a striking account of a ship funeral. Together, these anecdotes illuminate a vibrant world of diversity during the heyday of the Abbasid Empire, narrated with as much curiosity and zeal as they were perceived by its observant beholder. An English-only edition.
by Islam El Shazly Unlike his depiction in Michael Critchton’s Eaters of the Dead, or Antonio Banderas’ incarnation of him in The 13th Warrior, Ahmad ibn Fadlan was not expelled from th…
For the 10th century holy man and jurist Ahmad Ibn Fadlan, the violent, orgiastic, drunken spectacle put on by mourning Vikings in Bulgaria must have been shocking.
The first nucleus of the city of Baghdad was the "Round City" (Madinat al-Salam) founded by the Abbasid caliph al- Mansur in 762 AD and completed in 766 AD on the west bank of the Tigris in a strategic location in the middle of Mesopotamia. The original plan, of almost 1km in diameter, followed...
