It’s the Islamic Golden Age! And Baghdad is right at the centre of it all. So, somewhere in here I must be able to find the answer. I’ve been to the market. But they say flying carpets are ...

With time, the Arabs improved on their paper-making technology, and by 900 CE, shops in Baghdad were employing scribes to write books. Other notable inventions of the Islamic Golden Age include ...

The book shows how the Golden Age of Islamic thought shaped thinking in all the Abrahamic faiths ...

We meet: Jamila: a slave from Baghdad Yusuf: a market stallholder ... this series introduces different aspects of life in the Islamic Golden Age, circa AD900. Explore how values contrast to ...

Recently, the cassette market in Baghdad has seen a resurgence. Where people once sold him their old tapes ... Al-Sudani's store remains a sanctuary for those seeking to relive the golden age of music ...

It helps recall a golden age when Baghdad was considered one of the Arab world's cultural capitals. Among canvases of realist, surrealist or expressionist inspiration, a picturesque scene in ...

When Islam expanded beyond the Arabian Peninsula to the Iranian Plateau, parts of Central Asia, and North Africa in the late 7 th century CE, its growth coincided with a golden age of scholarship ...