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تأسيس بغداد

Founding of Baghdad

145 AH · 762 CE

Baghdad بغداد

The Abbasid caliph al-Mansur founds the Round City of Baghdad, which becomes the intellectual capital of the Muslim world.

al-Mustansiriyyah, an Abbasid college of 1233, Baghdad
al-Mustansiriyyah, an Abbasid college of 1233, Baghdad
Photo: Taisir Mahdi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Sources

  • al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Tarikh Baghdad
Draft, awaiting scholarly review.