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- proper noun Alternative spelling of
Abbasid .
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Examples
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Ironically, though Jazeera was the birthplace of the Caliphate, within a few short years, the first dynasty of Arab caliphs, the Umayyads, moved the capital to Damascus, in 667, and the Abbassid dynasty moved it to Baghdad in 750.
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Inside his tiny apartment, bold cobalt and russet oil paintings of Iraqi street life blot out London's gray skies: Baghdad bazaars, an Abbassid mosque, a coffeehouse where a mullah, a decorated soldier and a wealthy merchant sip tea, staring down the viewer with surly hauteur.
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But I have acquainted myself with the fundamentals of Islam–the history of the Umayyad and Abbassid dynasties, and the more recent history of the faith.
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But I have acquainted myself with the fundamentals of Islam–the history of the Umayyad and Abbassid dynasties, and the more recent history of the faith.
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George Dimitri Sawa, Music Performance Practice in Early Abbassid Era 132-320 A.H.
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"monarchy" in opposition to a religious caliphate, as expressed both by the dicta of tradition and by the Abbassid historians, was inspired, in my opinion, by Christian dislike of a divorce between
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Abbassid Caliphate of Islam), white (the Ummayyad Caliphate of
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Jordan: three equal horizontal bands of black (top, the Abbassid
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