{"id":147314,"date":"2025-01-12T16:42:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T23:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=147314"},"modified":"2025-01-12T16:42:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T23:42:43","slug":"the-abbasids-islams-golden-age-all-parts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/01\/12\/the-abbasids-islams-golden-age-all-parts\/","title":{"rendered":"The Abbasids: Islam&#8217;s Golden Age (All Parts)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"container\" class=\"style-scope ytd-channel-name\">\n<h2 id=\"text-container\" class=\"style-scope ytd-channel-name\"><em><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@EpichistoryTv\">Epic History<\/a><\/em><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In the 8th century Middle East, a new dynasty seized control of one of the world\u2019s greatest empires \u2013 the Islamic Caliphate. Though little remembered in the west today, the Abbasids reigned for five centuries. They oversaw an era of Islamic military dominance&#8230; city-building\u2026 brilliant scholarship, and technological innovation. It has come to be remembered as Islam\u2019s \u2018golden age\u2019. This is the rise and fall of the Abbasid Caliphate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Abbasids: Islam&#039;s Golden Age (All Parts)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O8hhwSn1iaU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epic History In the 8th century Middle East, a new dynasty seized control of one of the world\u2019s greatest empires \u2013 the Islamic Caliphate. Though little remembered in the west today, the Abbasids reigned for five centuries. They oversaw an era of Islamic military dominance&#8230; city-building\u2026 brilliant scholarship, and technological innovation. It has come to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}