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Al-Abbasiyya (Arabic: العباسية, romanized: al-Abbāsiyya, lit. 'the Abbasid place'), also known as Qasr al-Aghaliba (قصور الأغالبة, 'the Aghlabid palaces') and al-Qasr al-Qadim (القصر القديم, 'the old palace'), was the first palace city and capital of the Aghlabid Emirs, which ruled Ifriqiya from 800 to 909.
[80] [81] By the end of the century, they were one of the main political and ideological challenges to Sunni Islam and the Abbasids, contesting the Abbasids for the titular authority of the Islamic ummah. [82] [83] [84] The challenge of the Fatimid Caliphate only ended with their downfall in the 12th century. [85] Under the caliph al-Radi (r.
Asaf Jah V was the eldest son of Nasir-ud-dawlah, Asaf Jah IV (Mir Farqunda Ali Khan) and his wife Dilawar-un-Nisa Begum (buried in Makkah Masjid, Hyderabad). [7]Consorts. He was married three times, firstly to Mahbub Begum, [8] secondly to Hussaini Begum, [9] and thirdly to Allah Rakhi Begum.
The metaphor of a golden age began to be applied in 19th-century literature about Islamic history, in the context of the western aesthetic fashion known as Orientalism.The author of a Handbook for Travelers in Syria and Palestine in 1868 observed that the most beautiful mosques of Damascus were "like Mohammedanism itself, now rapidly decaying" and relics of "the golden age of Islam".
Abu Muslim Abd al-Rahman ibn Muslim al-Khurasani (Arabic: أبو مسلم عبد الرحمن بن مسلم الخراساني; Persian: ابومسلم عبدالرحمان بن مسلم خراسانی; born 718/19 or 723/27, died 755) was a Persian [1] [2] general who led the Abbasid Revolution that toppled the Umayyad dynasty, leading to the establishment of the Abbasid Caliphate.
Support for the Abbasid revolution came from people of diverse backgrounds, with almost all levels of society supporting armed opposition to Umayyad rule. [9] This was especially pronounced among Muslims of non-Arab descent, [10] [11] [12] though even Arab Muslims resented Umayyad rule and centralized authority over their nomadic lifestyles.
The Abbasid dynasty or Abbasids (Arabic: بنو العباس, romanized: Banu al-ʿAbbās) were an Arab dynasty that ruled the Abbasid Caliphate between 750 and 1258. They were from the Qurayshi Hashimid clan of Banu Abbas, descended from Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib.
Al-Wathiq was born on 18 April 812 (various sources give slightly earlier or later dates in 811–813), on the road to Mecca.His father was the Abbasid prince, and later caliph, al-Mu'tasim (r.