Quotes About Caliphal

Intellectual life in the caliphal court just before and after the Abbasid revolution (750), during which time Ibn al-Muqaffa was active, revolved around questions of what we would now call rationalism – that is, questions of verifiability of information beyond the claims of revealed religions which necessarily, and notoriously, contradicted each other.

The 'Abbasid family would hold the caliphal title for centuries to come, until it was seized from them by the Ottomans in 1517,