Baghdad under the Abbasid Caliphate

1258 Mongol conquest of the Abbasid Caliphate

library, translation institute and research center in medieval Baghdad

Abū Jaʿfar ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Manṣūr (; ‎; 714 – 6 October 775) usually known simply as by his laqab al-Manṣūr () was the second Abbasid caliph, reigning from 754 to 775 succeeding his brother al-Saffah (). He founded the 'Round City' of Madinat al-Salam, which was to become the core of imperial Baghdad.

Abū Muḥammad Mūsā ibn al-Mahdī al-Hādī (; 26 April 764 CE 14 September 786 CE) better known by his laqab al-Hādī () was the fourth Abbasid caliph who succeeded his father al-Mahdi and ruled from 169 AH (785 CE) until his death in 170 AH (786 CE). His short reign ended with internal chaos and power struggles with his mother.

original core of the city of Baghdad

10th century Arab scholar and bibliographer

Abbasid prince, poet and politician (861–908)

mosque

medieval university

non-fiction work by Al-Mas'udi

madrasa in Baghdad

Abbasid prince, singer, composer and poet (779–839)

Al-Mubarrad () (al-Mobarrad), or Abū al-‘Abbās Muḥammad ibn Yazīd (c. 826c. 898), was a native of Baṣrah. He was a philologist, biographer and a leading grammarian of the School of Basra, a rival to the School of Kufa. In 860 he was called to the court of the Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil at Samarra. When the caliph was killed the following year, he went to Baghdād, and taught there until his death.

The doors of the Baghdad wall belong to the age of the Abbasid state or it belongs to the Ottoman Empire

Zumarad Khatoon's Shrine in Baghdad, The minaret of the mosque is considered built during the time of Seljuq dynasty in 12th century

siege of Baghdad during the Fourth Fitna

armed conflict between the rival caliphs al-Musta'in and al-Mu'tazz for control over the Abbasid Caliphate; al-Mu'tazz won, and Al-Musta'in was executed shortly afterward

Seljuk official

ancient Abbasid complex in Baghdad, Iraq

Abbasid commander-in-chief (died 902)

First Friday mosque of Baghdad

Seljuk siege of the Abbasid capital city

polemical tract (1011)

Kitab al-Hawi or Al-Hawi or Kitāb al-Ḥāwī fī al-ṭibb translated as The Comprehensive Book on Medicine is an extensive medical encyclopedia authored by the Persian polymath Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi (865–925), commonly known in the West as Rhazes in the 10th century. This monumental work is a compendium of Greek, Syrian, and early Arabic medical knowledge, as well as some Indian medical practices.

Iraqi poet

former hospital

Iraqi poet