A summary of the second Arab Caliphate, their achievements, and threats to their rule. Also covers the development of the Mamluks, and the decline of the dynasty.
A summary history of the Caliphate, as rulers and later under the protection of the Mamluks in Egypt; from The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
An account of the dynasty, with particular reference to their impact on the city of Baghdad.
Part of a longer article on the history of Islam; outlines the Abbasid caliphate, independent and alongside other dynasties, then under the protection of the Seljuks until the death of Abdullah al-Musta'sim and the start of the Khanid dynasty.
A summary of the high points of the Caliphate, now based in Baghdad.
Summary article of the family which formed the last Arab Caliphates; also covers their decline, until only symbolic value remained. From Encyclopaedia of the Orient
A history of the Abbasids, first as rulers in their own right, later under the protection of the Seluk Dynasty.
Profiles of the most prominent Abbasid Caliphs, from the Islamic Dictionary. [English and Arabic]
Brief profile of the second Abbasid Caliph.
An online exhibition from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) offers a profile of the caliphate, and illustrations of their cultural and artistic achievement.
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