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The New Bridge strife between Sunnis and Shi'is in 349

فتنة القنطرة الجديدة بين السنة والشيعة سنة 349

c. 9 October 960 CE · 3 Sha'ban 349 AH

Baghdad

On Thursday 3 Sha'ban 349 Sunni-Shii strife at the New Bridge shut down Friday prayer in every congregational mosque on both banks except Baratha; a group of the Banu Hashim were arrested as its cause and released next day 1.

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

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Baghdad

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Summary

On Thursday, the third of Sha'ban 349 AH, a strife between Sunnis and Shi'is broke out at the New Bridge in Baghdad. 2

What happened

Friday prayers were disrupted the next day in the main mosques on both sides, except the mosque of Barathā, where the prayer was held. A group of Banu Hashim was seized and detained in the vizier's house, on the grounds that they had been the cause of the strife; they were released the following day. 2

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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. al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , p. 687
  2. al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , p.687
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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.