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Earthquakes and Locusts in Iraq in 347

زلازل سنة ٣٤٧ وجراد العراق

c. April 958 CE · 347 AH

Baghdad

In 347 earthquakes struck Baghdad, Hulwan, Badan al-Jabal, Qum and Kashan killing many; locusts devoured the summer crops and melons across Iraq and Diyar Mudar; the Byzantines took Amid and Mayyafariqin's forts killing 1,500, and ended the year by taking and ruining Samosata 1.

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Era
The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region
Levant & Iraq · Persia & Central Asia
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950960970 c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era

In space

Baghdad

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Overview

In 347 earthquakes recurred at Baghdad and its surrounds, as recorded by Ibn al-Jawzi in the Muntazam — among that year's tidings of afflictions from sky and earth 2.

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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-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , p. 683
  2. al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi
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islam.museum contributors. “Earthquakes and Locusts in Iraq in 347”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/baghdad-quakes-347/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.

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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.