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Al-Farabi moves to Baghdad

الفارابي يرحل إلى بغداد

c. 905 CE · c. 292 AH† – c. 905 CE · c. 292 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Baghdad

Al-Farabi moved from Central Asia to Baghdad, where he settled and wrote most of his works 1.

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Era
Abbasid Fragmentation
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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890900910920 c.
Abbasid Fragmentation

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Baghdad

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al-Farabi
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People and things also explored

The Nizamiyya Madrasa of Baghdad· Bayt al-Hikma — the House of Wisdom· The 'Adudi Bimaristan· al-Bimaristan al-Muqtadiri· Bimaristan al-Sayyida· Dar al-'Ilm of Baghdad (Sabur's library)· The Jami' al-Qati'a of Baghdad· The mosque of Qati'at Umm Ja'far

Sources

  1. Al-Fārābī — Encyclopaedia Britannica
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The Nizamiyya Madrasa of Baghdad

The Nizamiyya of Baghdad, first and most famous of the madrasas founded by the vizier Nizam al-Mulk al-Tusi: building began in 457 and sisters rose at Nishapur, Isfahan, Herat, Basra, Mosul and Amid; the Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni then Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi taught in it, and it mothered the Sunni institutional model that the later madrasas of Baghdad followed — the caliphs prayed there and Nizam al-Mulk himself visited to inspect its library.