The Islamic Caliphates

From the Prophet Muhammad's community in Medina to the first four caliphs, the Umayyads of Damascus who reached Spain and the Indus, the Abbasids of Baghdad and the House of Wisdom, the three rival caliphates of Baghdad, Cairo and Córdoba, Islam's spread by sea to Southeast Asia, the Mongol sack of Baghdad in 1258 and the abolition of the caliphate in 1924. Episode 07 of the World Empires series.

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