: a member of a dynasty of caliphs (750–1258) ruling the Islamic empire especially from their capital Baghdad and claiming descent from Abbas the uncle of Muhammad
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It was found among other pottery pieces dating to the Abbasid period, which began around 750 C.E. with the rise of the Abbasid caliphate in the Middle East.
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Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2024
Ubisoft via Saniya Ahmed In Mirage, Basim gives up his life as a street thief and trains as an Assassin to find the faces behind the Abbasid Caliphate’s (which was real) Order of the Ancients (which is fiction), a Templar-like group seeking an ancient memory seal.
—WIRED, 24 Oct. 2023
The Mongol empire could be cruel beyond measure, yet the Mongols primarily subjugated and destroyed other empires: the Abbasid, Khwarazmian, Bulgarian, Song, and so on.
—Robert D. Kaplan, Foreign Affairs, 8 Aug. 2023
This Islamic medical text is attributed to Ali ibn Musa al-Ridha, a Shia imam born in Medina, Saudi Arabia, who lived from AD 765 to 818 during the Abbasid caliphate.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 9 Feb. 2021
This institution thrived under the Abbasid caliphs of Baghdad in the eighth and ninth centuries as a library and academy.
—National Geographic, 30 July 2020
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Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2024
Ubisoft via Saniya Ahmed In Mirage, Basim gives up his life as a street thief and trains as an Assassin to find the faces behind the Abbasid Caliphate’s (which was real) Order of the Ancients (which is fiction), a Templar-like group seeking an ancient memory seal.
—WIRED, 24 Oct. 2023
The Mongol empire could be cruel beyond measure, yet the Mongols primarily subjugated and destroyed other empires: the Abbasid, Khwarazmian, Bulgarian, Song, and so on.
—Robert D. Kaplan, Foreign Affairs, 8 Aug. 2023
This Islamic medical text is attributed to Ali ibn Musa al-Ridha, a Shia imam born in Medina, Saudi Arabia, who lived from AD 765 to 818 during the Abbasid caliphate.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 9 Feb. 2021
This institution thrived under the Abbasid caliphs of Baghdad in the eighth and ninth centuries as a library and academy.
—National Geographic, 30 July 2020
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“Abbasid.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Abbasid. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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