al-Nasir builds the Nizamiyya library and the Harim-gate ribat

عمارة خزانة الكتب بالنظامية ورباط الحريم

c. 1193 CE · 589 AH

Baghdad

The caliph al-Nasir ordered the Nizamiyya library built in Baghdad, and in Rabi I the ribat he had founded by the Harim gate was finished — part of the caliphate-revival building program 1.

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1180119012001210 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks

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Baghdad

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Summary

Al-Nasir li-Din Allah ordered the building of a book library at the Nizamiyya madrasa in Baghdad, and it was completed in Rabi al-Awwal from the Ribat al-Harim that he had founded. 1

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al-Nasir li-Din Allah Ahmad ibn al-Mustadi'

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the caliph army routed by Sultan Tughril· Death of caliph al-Nasir li-Din Allah· Death of caliph al-Nasir's son· death of al-Mustaḍīʾ — the forty-seven-year caliphate of al-Nāṣir begins· al-Nasir's vizier Nasir al-Din dismissed· The Nizamiyya Madrasa of Baghdad· Bayt al-Hikma — the House of Wisdom· The 'Adudi Bimaristan

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  1. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir , p. 228
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