Islam Museum Islam Museum islam.museum
Search ⌕ ARENUR
Accessibility
Text size 100%

Saved on this device only — nothing is sent anywhere.

Fire at the Suq al-Tujjar and the Minaret of the Madina Mosque

حريق سوق التجارين ومنارة جامع المدينة

c. 915 CE · 303 AH

Baghdad

In 303 fire took the merchants' market at Bab al-Sham with the people in it, and flying sparks burned the minaret of the congregational mosque of al-Madina 1.

Depth

At a glance

Era
The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region
Levant & Iraq
Review
Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it

In time

900910920930 c.
Abbasid Fragmentation

In space

Baghdad

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

Overview

In 303 a fire broke out in the merchants' market at Bab al-Sham — the market burned with its people in it, and flying sparks caught the minaret of al-Madina's congregational mosque and burned it 1.

Connections

Explore the connections

Occurred at
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. 418
Cite this page

islam.museum contributors. “Fire at the Suq al-Tujjar and the Minaret of the Madina Mosque”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/suq-tujjar-fire-303/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.

Improve this page on GitHub · Report an error · JSON

Wing

Time

Eras, timelines, this day in history, any year in the Islamic world. Related

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.