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Demolition of a Church in Baghdad

هدم البيعة ببغداد

c. October 885 CE · Rabi' II 272 AH

Baghdad

In Rabi' II 272 the Baghdad crowd demolished what had been rebuilt of the church whose ruin had been mentioned the year before, and looted great wealth from it — they had resented the riders it drew 1.

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Era
The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region
Levant & Iraq
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870880890900 c.
Abbasid Fragmentation

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Baghdad

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Overview

In Rabi' II 272 the Baghdad crowd gathered and demolished what had been rebuilt of the church whose ruin had been mentioned the year before, and carried off great wealth from it — for they objected to their riding of beasts 1.

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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. 84-85
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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.