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The 137 pages that link to Abbasid Caliphate, each with the reason it gives.

• Islamic Golden AgeRelated: Abbasid rulers sponsored institutions and scholarship that helped establish the period’s early centers of learning.

• Sunni IslamRelated: Abbasid-era scholarship helped consolidate Sunni law, theology, and hadith traditions.

• BaghdadNarrower topic: Baghdad’s political and cultural history is inseparable from the dynasty that made it its capital.

• Seljuk EmpireRelated: The Seljuks protected the caliphate while exercising political and military power themselves.

• Fatimid CaliphateCompared with: The Fatimids challenged Abbasid legitimacy with a competing Shi'a caliphate.

• Abbasid RevolutionBroader topic: It was the political order founded by the revolution.

• Islamic artRelated: Abbasid court culture and trade helped circulate artistic techniques and styles across a wide region.

• CaliphateBroader topic: Its political fragmentation illustrates how nominal caliphal authority could outlast direct rule.

• Al-TabariRelated: Al-Tabari wrote amid Abbasid scholarly institutions and political life in Baghdad.

• Al-KhwarizmiRelated: The Abbasid court supported the scholarly environment in which he worked.

• House of WisdomNarrower topic: The House of Wisdom is associated with the Abbasid court and capital.

• Arabic calligraphyRelated: Abbasid-era scribal culture supported the codification and spread of Arabic scripts.

• Samanid EmpireRelated: Samanid rulers first governed Central Asian territories as Abbasid-appointed officials.

• CaravanseraiRelated: Its expanding trade networks encouraged investment in routes and traveler facilities.

• Islamic astronomyNarrower topic: Abbasid patronage and institutions fostered early astronomical translation and research.

• Hanbali schoolRelated: The school took shape in the Abbasid-era scholarly centers where Ahmad lived and taught.

• Ash'arismNarrower topic: Ash'arism took shape amid Abbasid-era controversies over reason and revelation.

• EmirateRelated: As Abbasid central authority weakened, regional emirs gained greater autonomy.

• KhorasanRelated: Khorasan’s governors and armies helped bring the Abbasids to power.

• IslamizationBroader topic: Its institutions and cosmopolitan centers helped consolidate Islamic learning and social life.

• Al-Ma'munNarrower topic: Al-Ma'mun's reign was one phase in the dynasty's changing political and intellectual history.

• Arab–Byzantine warsRelated: Abbasid rulers continued frontier warfare after overthrowing the Umayyads.

• Harun al-RashidNarrower topic: Harun ruled during the Abbasid state’s height, when Baghdad was its capital.

• AdabRelated: Its courts and urban elites became major settings for adab's growth.

• Ja'far al-SadiqRelated: Ja'far lived under early Abbasid rulers, whose authority competed with Alid claims.

• Nizam al-MulkRelated: Seljuk sultans governed alongside Abbasid caliphs, a balance Nizam al-Mulk had to manage.

• IqtaRelated: Revenue assignments resembling iqta developed under Abbasid rule before later systems expanded them.

• Battle of TalasNarrower topic: The victor's state, which inherited the Central Asian front won in the battle.

• Hunayn ibn IshaqNarrower topic: Abbasid-era scholarly institutions and patrons supported the setting in which Hunayn worked.

• Al-FarabiNarrower topic: Its scholarly institutions and networks formed the broad political setting for Al-Farabi’s career.

• Al-JahizNarrower topic: His career unfolded during the Abbasid era’s flourishing of scholarship and literary production.

• MihnaNarrower topic: The Mihna was a state policy conducted through Abbasid government institutions.

• Mu'tazilismNarrower topic: Mu'tazilism developed and gained court influence within the Abbasid political and scholarly world.

• NishapurRelated: Nishapur became a regional center within the eastern Abbasid domains.

• Seljuk dynastyRelated: Seljuk protection of the Abbasid caliph in Baghdad gave their sultans religious and political legitimacy.

• Abd al-Rahman ICompared with: The Abbasids ruled the eastern Islamic world while Abd al-Rahman rebuilt Umayyad authority in Iberia.

• Hulagu KhanCompared with: Hulagu’s capture of Baghdad ended the Abbasid caliphate’s rule in the city.

• Khwarazmian EmpireRelated: Khwarazmian rulers sought political authority that could rival the caliph’s symbolic standing.

• DhimmīBroader topic: Abbasid-era jurists and administrators helped systematize rules for non-Muslim subjects.

• Early Islamic historiographyNarrower topic: Many surviving histories took shape under Abbasid rule, generations after Islam’s beginnings.

• New PersianRelated: Its political and scholarly networks connected Persian writers with Arabic literary culture.

• SamarraNarrower topic: Samarra became an Abbasid capital during the dynasty’s ninth-century expansion.

• Siege of Baghdad (1258)Narrower topic: Baghdad’s capture ended the caliphate’s political authority there.

• Volga trade routeNarrower topic: Its markets and silver economy formed a major southern destination for route-borne commerce.

• Abd al-Rahman IIICompared with: The Abbasids were a rival caliphal power when Abd al-Rahman III claimed the title.

• Arab identityBroader topic: Its Arabic-language intellectual culture connected communities across an expansive political world.

• Createdness of the QuranRelated: Its rulers turned a theological dispute into an instrument of imperial policy.

• CtesiphonRelated: The Abbasids established their capital nearby, drawing power and settlement away from Ctesiphon.

• EmirRelated: Under Abbasid rule, regional governors and military leaders could exercise power as emirs.

• Graeco-Arabic translation movementNarrower topic: Abbasid patronage and Baghdad’s political prominence provided the movement’s principal setting.