The Abbasid Caliphate was founded in 750 when the Abbasid dynasty overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate and moved the seat of Islamic rule from Damascus to a newly built capital, Baghdad. Under Abbasid rule Baghdad became a center of science, culture, arts and invention, a period remembered as the Golden Age of Islam, drawing scholars who preserved and expanded Greek, Persian and Indian learning. Abbasid political authority declined steadily from the tenth century as regional dynasties broke away, and the caliphate's classical period ended in 1258 when Mongol forces under Hulagu Khan sacked Baghdad and executed the caliph.
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Government TypeCaliphate (hereditary Islamic monarchy) 1 Government type (class) Government type (class) Classification
Status (Extant or Former) The Abbasid Caliphate
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Who was the last Abbasid caliph to rule from Baghdad, and what happened to him?
Al-Musta'sim, executed after the Mongol sack of Baghdad in 1258.
Caliph al-Musta'sim was the last Abbasid caliph to rule from Baghdad. When the Mongols under Hulagu Khan sacked the city in 1258, they executed him, which marked the effective end of the classical Abbasid Caliphate.
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Why this is disputed. The Abbasid Caliphate's classical and Golden Age centuries fall within the conventional post-classical and medieval period, though its own internal periodization (rise, Golden Age, decline) does not map neatly onto European medieval boundaries.
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Source Wikipedia: Umayyad Caliphate
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Source Wikipedia: Harun al-Rashid
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Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate (modern-day Iraq)
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Islamic Golden Age (Middle Abbasid era)
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Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate (modern-day Iraq)
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Basra, Abbasid Caliphate
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He became a prominent figure in the House of Wisdom (Bayt al-Hikma), an institute of translation and learning patronized by the Abbasid caliphs, in Baghdad, and a number of Abbasid caliphs appointed him to oversee the translation of Greek scientific and philosophical texts into the Arabic language.
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Gaza, Palestine, Abbasid Caliphate
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Qazvin, Persia, Abbasid Caliphate (present-day Iran)
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Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate
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Medina, Hejaz, Abbasid Caliphate (present-day Saudi Arabia)
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Bukhara, Abbasid Caliphate
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Saʿadia ben Yosef Gaon or Said bin Yusuf al-Fayyumi (892–942) was a prominent rabbi, gaon, Jewish philosopher, and exegete who was active in the Abbasid Caliphate.
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This revival ended in 1258 with the sack of Baghdad by the Mongols under Hulagu Khan and the execution of Caliph al-Musta'sim, marking the effective end of the Abbasid Caliphate.
The Abbasid Caliphate: Status
Abbasid political authority declined steadily from the tenth century as regional dynasties broke away, and the caliphate's classical period ended in 1258 when Mongol forces under Hulagu Khan sacked Baghdad and executed the caliph.
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Under Hulegu's leadership, the Mongols sacked and destroyed Baghdad, ending the Islamic Golden Age and the Abbasid dynasty.
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A large army commanded by Hulegu, a prince of the Mongol Empire, attacked the historic capital of the Abbasid Caliphate after a series of provocations from its ruler, caliph al-Musta'sim.
Wikipedia: Umayyad Caliphate
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