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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 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).
The name Baghdad is pre-Islamic, and its origin is disputed. [3] The site where the city of Baghdad developed has been populated for millennia. Archaeological evidence shows that the site of Baghdad was occupied by various peoples long before the Arab conquest of Mesopotamia in 637 CE, and several ancient empires had capitals located in the surrounding area.
865-866 Caliphal Civil War, was an armed conflict during the "Anarchy at Samarra" between the rival caliphs al-Musta'in and al-Mu'tazz. 892 – Abbasid Caliphate of Al-Mu'tamid relocated to Baghdad from Samarra .
The Round City of Baghdad in the time of Caliph al-Mansur, with the Palace of the Golden Gate in the centre (No. 2) The Palace of the Golden Gate (Arabic: قصر باب الذهب, romanized: Qasr Bāb al-Dhahab) or Palace of the Green Dome (Arabic: قصر القبة الخضراء, romanized: Qasr al-Qubbat al-Khaḍrāʾ) was the official caliphal residence in Baghdad during the early ...
Baghdad was founded in 762 by the second Abbasid caliph, al-Mansur (r. 754–775).The main part of the original city was the Round City, with the first caliphal palace, the Palace of the Golden Gate, at its centre. [1]
The name “Bab al-Sheikh” translates to “The Gate of the Sheikh” and is a reference to the Sufi Sheikh Abd al-Qadir al-Gillani who's buried in a tomb in the same mosque in the area that also bares his name. [1] Abd al-Qadir al-Gilani was a respected Sufi Theologian and mystic who founded the Sufi Qadiriyya Order and a madrasa dedicated ...
Hibat Allah Abu'l-Barakat al-Baghdaadi (1080–1164/1165), physicist and philosopher; Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi (1162–1231), Muwaffaq al-Din `Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi, physician who wrote al-Mujarrad li lughat al-hadith; Muhammad bin Hasan al-Baghdadi (died 1239), author of an early Arab cookbook