Abbasides

The Persians, for reasons which will be explained in the terminal-Essay, show the greatest sympathy with the Barmecides; and abominate the Abbasides even more than the latter detested the Ommiades.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Caliph, the greatest of the Abbasides in The Nights.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

After his reign they became praetorians and led to the downfall of the Abbasides.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Historically, from the early Arab Ummayads and Abbasides to the Persian Safavids, the Indian Moghuls and the Turkish Ottomans, at no time have Muslim women ever been required to cover their faces as an act of religiosity and piety, or national law.

Archive 2006-11-12 Diane Silver 2006

Historically, from the early Arab Ummayads and Abbasides to the Persian Safavids, the Indian Moghuls and the Turkish Ottomans, at no time have Muslim women ever been required to cover their faces as an act of religiosity and piety, or national law.

The Progressive Muslim Union and the great Niqab Debate Pamela K Taylor 2006

During the Caliphat of the Abbasides this investiture came to signify sovereignty in

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

The Harim was enlarged and beautified by the Abbasides, especially by Al-Mahdi,

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

Under the later Abbasides, when the glories of the Caliphate were waning, there were bitter dissensions between Sunnis and Shiahs (the main orthodox and schismatic sects of Islam) which culminated in fierce rioting at Baghdad in 1258.

Pan-Islam

In this extremity, he at length cast his eyes on Spain, where the Abbasides had never been recognized, and where his own clansmen of the Koreysh, with their _maulis_, (freedmen or clients,) were numerous and powerful.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Various

Their throne was already tottering before the arms and intrigues of the Abbasides, whose black banners, under the guidance of the formidable Abu-Moslem, were even now bearing down from Khorassan upon Syria.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Various