al-Mansur

In 762, the Caliph al-Mansur moved the caliphate from Syria to Iraq.

Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

It operated intermittently until 767 A.D., when the Abbasid caliph al-Mansur closed it to cut off the supply of goods to insurgents in the Nile Delta and Medina.

Exodus 2010

It operated intermittently until 767 A.D., when the Abbasid caliph al-Mansur closed it to cut off the supply of goods to insurgents in the Nile Delta and Medina.

Exodus 2010

It operated intermittently until 767 A.D., when the Abbasid caliph al-Mansur closed it to cut off the supply of goods to insurgents in the Nile Delta and Medina.

Exodus 2010

In the eighth century, when the Caliph al-Mansur founded Baghdad and made Iraq the center of the Abbasid Empire, he initiated what people still refer to nostalgically as the Golden Age of Islam.

Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

In the eighth century, when the Caliph al-Mansur founded Baghdad and made Iraq the center of the Abbasid Empire, he initiated what people still refer to nostalgically as the Golden Age of Islam.

Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

In 762, the Caliph al-Mansur moved the caliphate from Syria to Iraq.

Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

Beginning under al-Mansur and continuing for two centuries, its collections -- containing virtually the entire corpus of Greek scientific and philosophical literature -- would be studied, commented upon and translated, with ever increasing refinement, into Arabic.

The Islamic Enlightenment Eric Ormsby 2009

The palace where al-Mansur and his successors nestled behind their bodyguards lay within the innermost wall.

The Islamic Enlightenment Eric Ormsby 2009

The caliph al-Mansur, whose name means "the Victorious" -- and who was one of the founders of the mighty Abbasid dynasty -- called on the services of a Persian astrologer, who determined that the most propitious date for breaking ground for the city would be July 30, 762.

The Islamic Enlightenment Eric Ormsby 2009