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Baghdad's urban space is defined by historic streets, avenues, alleyways and squares. The city holds numerous names, such as "City of Palaces", as its home to numerous palaces such as Abbasid Palace, Radwaniyah Palace and Al-Faw Palace. Baghdad is also home to a large number of museums, most notably the National Museum.
Baghdadi Arabic is the Arabic dialect spoken in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq. During the 20th century, Baghdadi Arabic has become the lingua franca of Iraq, and the language of commerce and education. It is considered a subset of Iraqi Arabic. [1]
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.
The translation movement took place in Baghdad from the mid-eighth century to the late tenth century. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] While the movement translated from many languages into Arabic, including Pahlavi , Sanskrit , Syriac , and Greek , it is often referred to as the Graeco-Arabic translation movement because it was predominantly focused on translating ...
A prolific writer, perhaps the greatest of his school, his best known work is Al-Kāmil ("The Perfect One" or "The Complete"). [ 4 ] [ 5 ] A leading scholar of Sībawayh 's seminal treatise on grammar, "al-Kitab" ("The Book"), [ 6 ] he lectured on philology and wrote critical treatises on linguistics and Quranic exegesis ( tafsir ).
Muhammad al-Baghdadi (1050-1141), jurist and mathematician, author of a commentary on the tenth book of Euclid's Elements popular in medieval Europe in translation Hibat Allah Abu'l-Barakat al-Baghdaadi (1080–1164/1165), physicist and philosopher
The Victory Arch (Arabic: قوس النصر, romanized: Qaws an-Naṣr), [1] [2] officially known as the Swords of Qādisīyah, and popularly called the Hands of Victory or the Crossed Swords, are a pair of triumphal arches in central Baghdad, Iraq. Each arch consists of a pair of outstretched hands holding crossed swords.
Mahmoudiyah 40 km south of Baghdad—Known as the “Gateway to Baghdad,” Lutifiyah area of southwest Baghdad; Mashada, 25 miles north of Baghdad [9] [10] Risafi—in northwestern Baghdad [11] Taji, Iraq (Arabic: تاجي) is an area approximately 20 miles north of Baghdad, and the site of a large U.S.-controlled military base.