Name: al-Kulayni moves to Baghdad, about the first decade of the fourth century
Location: Baghdad

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At an unknown date, perhaps in the first decade of the 4th century AH (913-923), al-Kulayni moved to Baghdad ¹.

Darb al-Silsila

He lived and taught in Darb al-Silsila near the Bab al-Kufa on the west bank of the Tigris, and there he completed his great book, al-Kafi ¹.

Baghdad

Baghdad lies on both banks of the Tigris. Founded by al-Mansur in the eighth century as his Round City and called Madinat al-Salam, it stayed the centre of the Abbasid caliphate until the Mongol conquest of 656/1258 and was for centuries the cultural metropolis of the Muslim world. It later became a provincial centre under the Ilkhanids and the Ottomans, and in 1921 the capital of modern Iraq.

al-Kulayni moves to Baghdad, about the first decade of the fourth century

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