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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.
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.
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.
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.
1094–1118 CE), built a new wall around the eastern side of Baghdad to protect it from invading armies and Bedouin raids. Along with the wall came several gates, one of which was the Bab al-Talsim, then known as Bab al-Halba. Which would be fully completed by Caliph al-Mustarshid (r. 1118–1135 CE) in 1123. Over time, several Abbasid Caliphs ...
However, when Iranian Safavid Shah Isma'il I conquered Baghdad, he destroyed the shrine. [3] In 1534 Baghdad was conquered by the Ottoman Empire, Suleiman the Magnificent ordered a dome be built over al-Gilani's mausoleum. [4] The area was said to be established by Abbasid Caliph al-Mustazhir (1094-1118 CE) upon building one of the gates of ...
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.