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The Great Fire of Baghdad in 485

الحريق العظيم ببغداد سنة 485

c. July 1092 CE · Jumada II 485 AH

Baghdad

In Jumada II 485 a great fire struck Baghdad in which a great number perished — among them the qari' Abu Abd Allah al-Banyasi Malik b. Ahmad b. Ali b. al-Farra', aged eighty-seven 1.

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Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
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In time

1080109011001110 c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks

In space

Baghdad

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Summary

In Jumada al-Akhira 485 AH a great fire broke out in Baghdad, and many people died in it 1.

Among its victims

Among those who burned in this fire was the reciter Abu Abd Allah al-Baniyasi, Malik ibn Ahmad ibn Ali ibn al-Farra al-Baghdadi, aged eighty-seven. He was the last to transmit from Abu al-Hasan ibn al-Salt al-Mujbir 1.

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Baghdad

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. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 376
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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.