The History of Caliph Vathek

✍ William Beckford 📂 Fiction 📅 2000 🏛 Project Gutenberg 🌐 English ⚖ 84 KB 👁 1 views

✍ Hugh Kennedy 📂 Fiction 📅 2016 🏛 Basic Books 🌐 English ⚖ 275 KB 👁 2 views

In _Caliphate_ , Arab historian Hugh Kennedy offers a grand history of the caliphate since the death of the prophet Mohammed to its modern Islamist incarnations. He begins by vividly describing the political and cultural legacies of the Arab caliphates that shaped the Islamic Golden Age. From the se

Sword of the Caliphate

✍ Martin, Clay 📂 Fiction 📅 2019 🏛 WildBlue Press 🌐 English ⚖ 174 KB 👁 2 views

What would a mad man do with a real weapon of mass destruction? Simple. He would use it. In the near future, that is exactly what has happened. Derek Martell finds himself on a contract job in Iraq when the newly formed Islamic Caliphate unleashes a genetic weapon to devastating effect. Eighty perce

Sword of the Caliphate

✍ Clay Martin 📂 Fiction 📅 2019 🏛 WildBlue Press 🌐 English ⚖ 174 KB 👁 2 views

What would a mad man do with a real weapon of mass destruction? Simple. He would use it. In the near future, that is exactly what has happened. Derek Martell finds himself on a contract job in Iraq when the newly formed Islamic Caliphate unleashes a genetic weapon to devastating effect. Eighty perce

The Caliph's Heirs: Brothers at War: the

The Caliph's Heirs: Brothers at War: the Fall of Baghdad

✍ Jurji Zaidan 📂 Fiction 📅 2012 🏛 CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 🌐 English ⚖ 173 KB

It is 809 AD in Baghdad, the capital of the ‘Abbasid Empire. The famed Caliph Harun al-Rashid has died. His successor, al-Amin, son of his Hashemite Arab wife, had promised the Caliph that he would appoint his half-brother al-Ma’mun, born to a slave mother, as his heir apparent. But al-Amin appoints

The Caliph's Sister: Harun al-Rashid and

The Caliph's Sister: Harun al-Rashid and the Fall of the Persians

✍ Jurji Zaidan 📂 Fiction 📅 2012 🏛 The Zaidan Foundation 🌐 English ⚖ 135 KB

It is 803 AD in Baghdad in the closing years of the glorious reign of the Caliph Harun al-Rashid best known in the western world as the caliph whose court is described in the Arabian Nights. His reign represented the peak of ‘Abbasid power in a caliphate full of pomp, splendor and learning that is o