The Mongols stormed Baghdad in 1258, leaving the mighty Abbasid Caliphate in ruins. A city once known for its wealth and knowledge was reduced to ashes in a brutal conquest. Voting ends in ...

This story appears in the July 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. I haven't returned to Baghdad to be a war tourist, attuning my eyes to the many long shadows cast by trauma, but it's ...

Baghdad’s libraries were looted and burned in the chaos of 2003, but one of its libraries escaped this fate and a historic collection survived The al-Qadiriyya library holds historic copies of ...

When was the early Islamic civilisation? Where was the early Islamic civilisation? How did the early Islamic civilisation begin? Who was the caliph? Activity: Quiz – Introduction to early ...

In the chaotic aftermath of Mongol expansion in the mid-13th century which had left the Abbasid capital of Baghdad in ruin, a new centre of learning soon came to the forefront. Ironically it was ...