The largest signature belongs to the last caliph himself: Abdulmecid II. Now that document has international experts arguing over a historical puzzle: did the deposed ruler seek to revive the ...

Whenever I think of the Abbasid caliphs of Baghdad, one story about them elbows aside all others in my mind. In the early 840s, Caliph Mutawakkil badly wanted to see a wondrous cedar in the hills of ...

The wife of Caliph Cason, who is now recovering in the hospital, says her husband had just fed their children and put them down for a nap before he dozed off and woke up to flames inside their home.