Islamic civilization

The Abbasids defeated the Umayyads to claim the caliphate and leadership of the Muslim world in 750. The Abbasids based their legitimacy as rulers on their

Entrance to the Hall of the Two Sisters. The Alhambra, Granada, Spain. Oil on canvas (1850-1933) Stanford Museum

Osman Hamdi Bey (Constantinople, 1842 - Constantinople, February 24, 1910) was an Ottoman administrator, intellectual, art expert and also a prominent and pioneering painter. Throughout his professional career as museum and academy director, Osman Hamdi continued to paint in the style of his teachers, Gérôme and Boulanger. [Alte und Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin - Oil on canvas]

From Iran to Spain, these magnificent mosques, many of which date back to the Islamic Golden Age, are more than places for prayer, they are centers of community life

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