Last name origin & meaning: Muslim: from the Arabic family name ‛Abbāsī, a
derivative of the personal name ‛Abbās (see Abbas),
denoting someone descended from or associated with someone called
‛Abbās, in particular a descendant of the Abbasid dynasty of
khalifs, who ruled the Islamic world from 750, when they founded a
new capital in Baghdad, to 1258, when they were destroyed by the
Mongols.
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