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Round city of Baghdad. Baghdad was founded on 30 July 762 CE. It was designed by Caliph al-Mansur. [1] According to 11th-century scholar Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi in his History of Baghdad, [2] each course of the city wall consisted of 162,000 bricks for the first third of the wall's height.
Ahmad ibn Fadlan ibn al-Abbas al-Baghdadi (Arabic: أحمد بن فضلان بن العباس بن راشد بن حماد, romanized: Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Baghdādī) or simply known as Ibn Fadlan, was a 10th-century traveler from Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate, [a] famous for his account of his travels as a member of an embassy of the Abbasid caliph al-Muqtadir to the king of ...
The House of Wisdom existed as a part of the major Translation Movement taking place during the Abbasid Era, translating works from Greek and Syriac to Arabic, but it is unlikely that the House of Wisdom existed as the sole center of such work, as major translation efforts arose in Cairo and Damascus even earlier than the proposed establishment of the House of Wisdom. [9]
Baghdad eclipsed Ctesiphon, the capital of the Sasanian Empire, which was located some 30 km (19 mi) to the southeast, which had been under Muslim control since 637, and which became quickly deserted after the foundation of Baghdad. The site of Babylon, which had been deserted since the 2nd century, lies some 90 km (56 mi) to the south.
973: Shi'a–Sunni disturbances in Baghdad; power captured in Baghdad by the Turkish General Sabuktigin. 974: Abdication of the Abbasid Caliph al-Muti; accession of at-Ta'i. 975: Death of the Fatimid Caliph al-Muizz, accession of Al-Aziz Billah. 976: The Buwayhid Sultan 'Izz al-Dawla recaptures power with the help of his cousin 'Adud al-Dawla.
This is a list of political entities in the 10th century (901–1000) AD. Political entities Map of ... Baghdad: Empire: 750 – 1256 AD: Africa: North; Asia: West
Luster Bowl of Man Holding a Banner with Peacock, Iraq, Abbasid period, 10th Century [1]. Abbasid ceramics or Abbasid pottery is a type of Islamic pottery created in Iraq during the Abbasid Dynasty, especially during the 9th and 10th centuries at the capitals of Baghdad and Samarra. [2]
By the 10th century, the city's population was between 1.2 million [52] and 2 million. [53] Baghdad's early meteoric growth eventually slowed due to troubles within the Caliphate , including relocations of the capital to Samarra (during 808–819 and 836–892), the loss of the western and easternmost provinces, and periods of political ...