Abbasids in a sentence

At first, he sought an understanding with the Abbasids, but when they refused his terms and demanded his submission, Ibn Habib broke openly with the Abbasids and invited the remnants of the Umayyad dynasty to take refuge in his dominions.

Al-Andalus was a safe haven for the house of Umayya that managed to evade the Abbasids.

All along the way the path was filled with danger, as the Abbasids had dispatched horsemen across the region to try to find the Umayyad prince and kill him.

Also, the Abbasids found themselves to often be at conflict with the Umayyads in Spain.

Although some of the princes of the previous Umayyad dynasty had begun to gather and translate Greek scientific literature, the Abbasids were the first to foster Greek learning on a large scale.

Although the Abbasids were deadly foes of Zoroastrianism, the brand of Islam they propagated throughout Iran became in turn ever more "Zoroastrianized", making it easier for Iranians to embrace Islam.

A mosque dedicated to Umar was built upon the place in the city where he prayed, next to the church. citation Bethlehem then passed through the control of the Islamic caliphates of the Umayyads in the 8th century, then the Abbasids in the 9th century.

Architecture As the power shifted from the Umayyads to the Abbasids, the architecture styles changed also.

At the end of the eighth century the Abbasids found they could no longer keep a huge polity larger than that of Rome together from Baghdad.

At the same time, the Abbasids faced challenges closer to home.

By 1000 they had become the chief political and ideological challenge to Sunni Islam in the form of the Abbasids.

By 1055, the Seljuqs had wrested control from the Buyids and Abbasids, and took any remaining temporal power.

By the 920s, the situation had changed further, as North Africa was lost to the Abbasids.

During this period the Muslim world became an intellectual centre for science, philosophy, medicine and education as the Abbasids championed the cause of knowledge and established the " House of Wisdom " (Arabic: بيت الحكمة) in Baghdad.

Especially after the rise of the Persianizing 'Abbasids and the move of the capital further to the east, to Baghdad.

He based his claim to the caliphate on his Umayyad ancestors who had held undisputed control of the caliphate until they were overthrown by the Abbasids.

His death signalled the end of Umayyad rule in the East, and was followed by the massacre of Umayyads by the Abbasids.

However, tribal skirmishes continued, allowing the Abbasids of Baghdad to conquer Oman.

In Persia the Turkic Ghaznavids snatched power from the Abbasids.

In the meantime, a call went out through the Muslim world that al-Andalus was a safe haven for friends of the house of Umayya, if not for Abd al-Rahman's scattered family that managed to evade the Abbasids.