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سقوط بغداد

Fall of Baghdad

656 AH · 1258 CE

Baghdad بغداد

The Mongols under Hulagu sack Baghdad, kill the caliph al-Musta'sim and end the Abbasid caliphate there. Libraries and countless lives are lost.

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

  • Ibn Kathir, al-Bidaya wa al-Nihaya
Draft, awaiting scholarly review.