Siege of Nishapur

حصار نيسابور (١٢٢١)

November 1220 CE · Ramadan 617 AH† – April 1221 CE · Safar 618 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Nishapur

Draft card for the Siege of Nishapur in 1220–21, the Mongols' reduction of the city after its second fall; its sources are not yet checked on the page.

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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121012201230
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Nishapur

Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph

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People and things also explored

The Bayhaqiyya Madrasa of Nishapur· The Sa'diyya Madrasa of Nishapur· Qasr al-Shadiyakh· Battle of Nishapur (1038)· The Conquest of Naysabur· Jaʿda ibn Hubayra's Khurāsān mission and Naysābūr's defiance (37 AH)· Khayyam's algebra treatise· The Nizamiyya of Nishapur

Sources

  • Tarikh al-Islam — Hasan Ibrahim Hasan
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The Bayhaqiyya Madrasa of Nishapur

The Bayhaqiyya of Nishapur, the earliest madrasa whose report is preserved in Islam: al-Maqrizi holds that the people of Nishapur were the first recorded as building a madrasa; al-Subki and al-Suyuti cited it to rebut al-Dhahabi's claim that Nizam al-Mulk founded the first madrasas, for it stood before Nizam al-Mulk was born.