🚨Another awesome coin put up!
Tabaristan - 1/2 Drachm - Anonymous "APZWT"
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#Numismatics #Sasanian #Iran #Abbasid #CoinCollecting #Islam #Silver
An earlier version of my comic characters. In an 12th-century Baghdad apothecary, the doctor prepares to shove a wad of mandrake root up a patient's butt. To cure his insomnia, obviously.
#comic #medieval #abbasid
#Mongols killed the last #Abbasid caliph on the orders of #Hulagu #OnThisDay in 1258 by rolling Abu Ahmad Abdallah al-Musta'sim in a rug & having horses stomp him to death; thus ended the #Baghdad caliphate that once ruled nearly half the known world...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Must...
youtube.com/watch?v=D1P0...
The #Damascus #Ummayad gave way to the #Abbasid who built #Baghdad in 750CE, and this is the #civ remembered as the #Islamic #GoldenAge.
But all civilizations rise and fall, and that of #Crusader #Europe is no exception as final Crusades #Israel, #Ukraine, #America end.
New Journal of #Abbasid Studies special issue on #water - open access @degruyterbrill.bsky.social #medievalsky
brill.com/view/journal...
#nature #empires #colony #heidelberg #knowledge #science #evolution #history #fakehistory #music #history #matrix #reich #abbasid #caliphate
is history made up? part 47 - The final part of the core years matrix.
HISTORY IS NUTS
everything is on repeat.
Harun al-Rashid became the 5th #caliph of the #Abbasid caliphate #OnThisDay in 786, ruling a vast empire from Baghdad but dividing it between his sons after his death, leading to civil war & the decline of the caliphate, a key turning point in #history...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harun_a...
New episode is out early for Patreon backers!
www.patreon.com/posts/131929...
#Patreon #podcast #food #history #Abbasid
Reading in the Encyclopaedia of Islam 2 that one way al-Nasir gained power for himself as #Abbasid caliph c. 1200 was by controlling #pigeon breeding and only allowing use of his own messenger #pigeons, this enabling surveillance of communications in #Baghdad
Arabic Documents from Early Islamic Khurasan, a groundbreaking publication shedding light on the administration and daily life of Eastern #Iran during the #Abbasid period.
Learn more: https://tinyurl.com/4hcux52w
Today on the blog, the story of the most generous guy in ninth-century Persia, featuring camels, scheming viziers and more hubris than is medically advisable. #MedievalSky #Abbasid
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Al-Musta'sim
#Mongols killed the last #Abbasid caliph on the orders of #Hulagu #OnThisDay in 1258 by rolling Abu Ahmad Abdallah al-Musta'sim in a rug & having horses stomp him to death; thus ended the #Baghdad caliphate that once ruled nearly half the known world...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Must...
Abu Muslim: The Architect of the Abbasid Revolution www.medievalists.net/2022/01/abu-muslim-archi... #Abbasid
The impact of the Indosphere open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
#India #Buddhism #Hinduism #China #Cambodia #Indonesia #Japan #Korea #algebra #zero #algorithm #Xuanzang #Dalrymple #Greece #Rome #mathematics #renaissance #Toledo #Indosphere #SilkRoad #GoldenRoad #Islam #Abbasid #Wu-Zetian #Sanskrit
#Land #Turtle #Island #Original #Map #Written #Idrisi
#Sanskrit #Antarctica #Old #Topographical #Evidence
#Nazis #Fled #Under #Ice #Inhabit #Hide #Umayyad
#Abbasid #Dynasty #Arabs
■ A FUNNY ANECDOTE FROM HISTORY: A LITTLE MIX-UP, YEAR 910 #history #abbasid #10thcentury #book #historybook
My rendition of a scene at a local clinic, 10th-century Baghdad. This one will be called "MANDRAKE up the BUTT...a cure for INSOMNIA?"
#art #medievalmanuscript #medieval #abbasid
Harun al-Rashid became the 5th #caliph of the #Abbasid caliphate #OnThisDay in 786, ruling a vast empire from Baghdad but dividing it between his sons after his death, leading to civil war & the decline of the caliphate, a key turning point in #history... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harun_al-Rashid
Harun al-Rashid became the 5th #caliph of the #Abbasid caliphate #OnThisDay in 786, ruling a vast empire from Baghdad but dividing it between his sons after his death, leading to civil war & the decline of the caliphate, a key turning point in #history... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harun_al-Rashid
Harun al-Rashid became the 5th #caliph of the #Abbasid caliphate #OnThisDay in 786, ruling a vast empire from Baghdad but dividing it between his sons after his death, leading to civil war & the decline of the caliphate, a key turning point in #history...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harun_a...
Baghdad's construction was commissioned by the caliph Al-Mansur #OnThisDay in 762
#Baghdad's construction was commissioned by the caliph Al-Mansur #OnThisDay in 762, becoming the capital of the vast #Abbasid empire & recovering from the Mongols' sacking in 1258, but will it recover from George W. Bush's disastrous #Iraq war — supported by #JoeBiden?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad
My #bookreview for @thewritereads.bsky.social Ultimate Blog Tour of #TheDjinnsApple written by Djamila Morani and translated by Sawad Hussain is up on the blog. Go check it out! #historicalfiction #youngadult #mystery #Abbasid #bookbloggers @neemtreepress.bsky.social
Mongols killed the last Abbasid caliph #OnThisDay in 1258
#Mongols killed the last #Abbasid caliph on the orders of #Hulagu #OnThisDay in 1258 by rolling Abu Ahmad Abdallah al-Musta'sim in a rug & having horses stomp him to death; thus ended the #Baghdad caliphate that once ruled nearly half the known world...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Must...