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Era: The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region: Levant & Iraq
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Overview

al-Karkh: a district of Baghdad. al-Baladhuri reports that al-Mansur made the gathering place of the markets in al-Karkh, and ordered the merchants to build shops, and required them to pay the rent. ¹

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Site of: The ghilman's seizure and humiliation of Jalal al-Dawla, 424· Restoration of the Sunni Adhan in Karkh and Restrictions on the Shi'a

People and things also explored

al-Sharif al-Murtada· أبو القاسم علي بن المسلمة· جلال الدولة أبو طاهر بن بهاء الدولة· al-Shaykh al-Tusi· طغرل بك· Baghdad· The ghilman's seizure and humiliation of Jalal al-Dawla, 424· Restoration of the Sunni Adhan in Karkh and Restrictions on the Shi'a

Sources

Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)

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islam.museum contributors. “al-Karkh”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/al-karkh/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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al-Sharif al-Murtada

Naqib of the Talibids and head of Iraq's Shi'a — imam in kalam, poetry and rhetoric, pupil of al-Shaykh al-Mufid; a hand in the Nahj al-balagha's compilation is attributed to him, and Ibn Bassam praised him as the agreed imam of Iraq's community.