Baghdad

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Sources

1. BookThe Mongols and the Islamic World: From Conquest to Conversion
2. BookRashiduddin Fazlullah’s Jamiʿu’t-tawarikh: Compendium of Chronicles: A History of the Mongols

Relations

location of:

• House of Wisdom

  Sources: Greek Thought, Arabic Culture: The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in Baghdad and Early ʿAbbāsid Society (2nd–4th/8th–10th centuries), When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: The Rise and Fall of Islam’s Greatest Dynasty

• Mustansiriya

  Sources: When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: The Rise and Fall of Islam’s Greatest Dynasty, The Abbasid Caliphate (750–1258)

• Nizamiyya

  Sources: When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: The Rise and Fall of Islam’s Greatest Dynasty, Al-Ghazali

• Round City of Baghdad

  Sources: When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: The Rise and Fall of Islam’s Greatest Dynasty, The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates: The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh Century

burial place of:

• Abu Hanifa

  Sources: Osman’s Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire, 1300–1923, Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire

capital of:

• Abbasid Caliphateuntil Feb 1258 O.S.

  Sources: The Mongols and the Islamic World: From Conquest to Conversion

conquered by:

• Buyid dynastysince 945 CE O.S.

  Sources: When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: The Rise and Fall of Islam’s Greatest Dynasty, The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates: The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh Century

• Hülegü

  Sources: The Mongols and the Islamic World: From Conquest to Conversion, Rashiduddin Fazlullah’s Jamiʿu’t-tawarikh: Compendium of Chronicles: A History of the Mongols

• Murad IVsince Dec 1638

  Sources: Osman’s Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire, 1300–1923, Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire

• Suleiman the Magnificentsince 1534 O.S.

  Sources: Osman’s Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire, 1300–1923, Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire

• Tughril Begsince Dec 1055 O.S.

  Sources: When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: The Rise and Fall of Islam’s Greatest Dynasty, The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates: The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh Century

employed:

• Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi

  Sources: Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts, The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance

visited by:

• Ibn Battuta

  Sources: The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325–1354, The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century

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  Philosophy2 items
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    Philosophy in the Islamic world200 AH
  • Al-Ghazālī’s Incoherence of the Philosophers11 Muharram 488 AH
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  The History of Writing1 item
  • Paper made in Baghdad · sitec. 795 CE
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  The Islamic Golden Age11 items
  • The Abbasid caliphate132 AH
  • Al-Mansur founds Baghdad, the Round City145 AH
  • Paper comes to Baghdadc. 178 AH
  • Al-Khwarizmi writes the book that names algebrac. 205 AH
  • Al-Maʾmun’s House of Wisdomc. 213 AH
  • Al-Razi tells smallpox from measlesc. 290 AH
  • Tughril Beg enters BaghdadRamadan 447 AH
  • The Nizamiyya opens in Baghdad459 AH
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    The Mustansiriya opens in Baghdad631 AH
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    The siege and sack of Baghdad22 Muharram 656 AH
  • Al-Mustaʿsim surrenders4 Safar 656 AH
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  The Mongol Empire1 item
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    Hülegü’s army sacks Baghdad7 Safar 656 AH
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  The Ottoman Empire2 items
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    Baghdad taken from the Safavids1534 O.S.
  • Treaty of Zuhab17 May 1639
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  The Travels of Ibn Battuta1 item
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    Baghdad under the MongolsRajab 727 AH
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  The Viking Age1 item
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    Ibn Fadlan meets the Rus’ on the Volga · sender’s seatMay 922 CE O.S.
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  The World’s Religions1 item
  • Baháʼu’lláh declares his mission in the Garden of Riḍván21 Apr 1863
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  World War I2 items
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    Siege of Kut · campaign objective7 Dec 1915
  • British and Indian troops take Baghdad · objective11 Mar 1917