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The Round City of Baghdad is the original core of Baghdad, built by the Abbasid Caliph al-Mansur in 762–766 CE as the official residence of the Abbasid court. Its official name in Abbasid times was City of Peace (Arabic: مدينة السلام, romanized: Madīnat as-Salām).
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.
Baghdad [note 1] (Arabic: بغداد, Baghdād) is the capital and largest city of Iraq, located along the Tigris in the central part of the country. With a population exceeding 7 million, it ranks among the most populous cities in the Middle East and Arab World and forms 22% of the country's population.
'Mother of All Cities'), also known as the Umm al-Ma'arik Mosque (lit. ' Mother of All Battles '), is a mosque located in Baghdad, Iraq. It was the city's largest place of worship for Sunni Muslims, [1] but it has also become the location of a Shi'a hawza and a place of refuge for many fleeing the terrorists' [who?] depredations in the Anbar ...
The mausoleum in the 1960s. Another prominent shrine in this district is that of the Hanbali Sufi saint, Abdul Qadir Gilani, who founded the Qadiriyya order. [5] [6] The complex consist of a mosque, mausoleum, and the library known as Qadiriyya Library, which contains various books for Islam.
Al-Mamun also commanded the production of a large map of the world, which has not survived, [3]: 61–63 though it is known that its map projection type was based on Marinus of Tyre rather than Ptolemy. [4]: 193 Islamic cartographers inherited Ptolemy's Almagest and Geography in the 9th century.
Bab al-Sheikh (Arabic: باب الشيخ, romanized: The Gate of the Sheikh) is an old neighborhood in the Rusafa side of Baghdad, Iraq.It is notable for being the location of the mausoleum of Sufi Sheikh Abd al-Qadir al-Gilani, founder of the Qadiriyya Order.
Baghdad was a hub of Islamic learning and scholarship for centuries and served as the capital of the Abbasids. [14] Baghdad also is home to two prominent Shia Imams in what is known as Kadhimiya, Iraq. The city of Karbala has substantial prominence in Shia Islam as a result of the Battle of Karbala, fought in 10 October 680.