What was the Abbasid caliphate?

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The Abbasid Caliphate (750–1258) was the caliphate of the Banu al-Abbas from Baghdad. Its golden age was in learning, translation and trade, followed by successive kingdoms until the Mongols took Baghdad. ¹

Disputing the count of raids and sariyas

The maghazi arithmetic disputes: Ibn Ishaq's twenty-six raids versus the twenty-seven that split Wadi'l-Qura from Khaybar; nine pitched battles common to both lists with al-Waqidi adding Wadi'l-Qura and al-Ghaba for eleven; and the sariya counts ranging from thirty-five to al-Waqidi's forty-eight (in al-Tabari's chain) to sixty-six.

What was the Abbasid caliphate?

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Disputing the count of raids and sariyas