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At a glance
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
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Overview
al-Rusafa: the eastern side of Baghdad. al-Baladhuri reports that al-Mansur built it for al-Mahdi, and it was called the camp of al-Mahdi because he camped there when he set out for al-Rayy. He settled there when he came in the year 151 AH. 1
Sources
- Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition) , p.414-417
- Muhammad Qabbani, The Umayyad State from Birth to Fall (Damascus: Dar Wahy al-Qalam, 2006)
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islam.museum contributors. “al-Rusafa”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/al-rusafa/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.