Abbasid Caliphate
750–1258
Islamic caliphate centered on Baghdad, ended by the Mongol sack of the city.
- Type
- Era
- Date
- 750–1258
- Place
- Baghdad
Who was alive during Abbasid Caliphate
- Ahmad ibn Hanbal 780–855, imam
- Al-Tabari 839–c. 923, historian
- Harald Fairhair c. 850–c. 932, king
- Al-Farabi c. 872–c. 950, philosopher
- Ibn Fadlan c. 879–c. 960, traveler
- Al-Zahrawi 936–1013, physician
- Ferdowsi 940–c. 1020, poet
- Ibn al-Haytham c. 965–c. 1040, physicist
- Bi Sheng c. 970–c. 1051, inventor
- Al-Biruni 973–c. 1050, scholar
- Yaroslav the Wise c. 978–1054, prince
- Mahmud al-Kashgari c. 1005–c. 1102, scholar
- Ramanuja c. 1017–c. 1137, philosopher
- Su Song 1020–1101, polymath
- Anselm of Canterbury c. 1033–1109, theologian and philosopher
- Omar Khayyam 1048–1131, poet
- Milarepa c. 1052–c. 1135, mystic
- Abdul Qadir Gilani 1078–1166, mystic
- Hildegard of Bingen 1098–1179, abbess
- Jayavarman VII c. 1122–c. 1218, king
- Eleanor of Aquitaine c. 1122–1204, queen
- Attar of Nishapur c. 1145–c. 1221, poet
- Tomoe Gozen c. 1157–c. 1247, military leader
- Leonardo Fibonacci c. 1170–c. 1250, mathematician