The Abbasid Caliphate: Baghdad at the Center of the World — Fexingo History
FexingoIn the eighth century, a new dynasty swept across the Middle East, toppling the Umayyads and founding a capital that would become the intellectual and commercial heart of the medieval world: Baghdad. Lucas and Luna guide listeners through the rise of the Abbasid Caliphate, from the bloody revolution of 750 CE to the golden age of Harun al-Rashid and the translation movement that preserved Greek ph... more
| Publishes | Daily | Episodes | 94 | Founded | 2 months ago |
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In this episode of The Abbasid Caliphate: Baghdad at the Center of the World, Lucas and Luna explore the life and work of al-Muqaddasi, the 10th-century geographer who traveled across the Islamic world and wrote the most detailed account of the Abbas... more
In 762 AD, as Caliph al-Mansur was laying the foundations of his new capital Madinat al-Salam—the future Baghdad—he faced a crisis that threatened to destroy his dream before the first brick was laid. The powerful Khurasani general Muhammad al-Nafs a... more
We often think of the Abbasid Caliphate as a land empire—Baghdad's round city, the Silk Road caravans, the armies of Samarra. But this episode follows the currents of the Indian Ocean, where Abbasid merchants, shipbuilders, and navigators created a m... more
In 869 AD, the Abbasid Caliphate was in crisis: Samarra's Turkic guard had become kingmakers, the Zanj rebellion was erupting in the south, and the caliphate seemed adrift. Then al-Muhtadi took the throne—a caliph who tried to rule like the early Ras... more
In 869 CE, a man named Ali ibn Muhammad led an uprising that would become one of the largest and most brutal slave revolts in medieval history. For fifteen years, the Zanj — enslaved East Africans forced to drain salt marshes in southern Iraq — fough... more
In ninth-century Baghdad, a scholar from a noble Arab family dared to reconcile faith with reason. Al-Kindi, born in Kufa around 801 CE, became the first peripatetic philosopher of the Islamic world, earning the title 'Philosopher of the Arabs.' This... more
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the rise of the ghilman — the Turkic slave soldiers who became the power behind the Abbasid throne. From Al-Mu'tasim's decision to recruit them to the construction of Samarra, the story reveals how foreign mili... more
In 861 AD, the caliph al-Mutawakkil was murdered by his own Turkish guards in Samarra—a stunning palace coup that plunged the Abbasid Caliphate into a decade of chaos known as the Anarchy at Samarra. This episode unpacks the conspiracy: al-Mutawakkil... more
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A historically focused series that examines the Abbasid Caliphate from its dramatic founding through its cultural flowering and eventual fragmentation, with a strong emphasis on the movement of knowledge, science, and ideas across cultures. Episodes frequently center on Baghdad's Round City, the House of Wisdom, translation efforts, and the translation of Greek philosophy into Arabic, while also tracing political power struggles, court politics, and the empire's interactions with neighboring realms. A recurring thread is how science, mathematics, and literature thrived under caliphs like Harun al-Rashid and al-Ma'mun, and how later events—such as the Mongol sack of Baghdad in 1258—reshaped a vast world. Noteworthy moments often crystallize ... more
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