Baghdad

Baghdad was founded as the Abbasid capital in 762, became the largest city in the world, and was sacked by Hulagu in 1258.

Al-Kindi, the first major philosopher writing in Arabic, was active in Baghdad's House of Wisdom milieu.

This source names Baghdad directly: "in the Najibiyyih garden outside Baghdad, later commemorated as the festival of Ridvan, and his 31 August 1868 arrival at Acre after departing Adrianople under Ottoman exile order; not the right..."

This source names Baghdad directly: "from Masha'allah in eighth century Baghdad through Abu Ma'shar's systematic elaboration to Kepler's own engagement with the tradition, including essays on Saturn-Jupiter conjunctions across medieval..."

This source names Baghdad directly: "authority from the Abbasid caliph in Baghdad."

This source names Baghdad directly: "Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in Baghdad and Early 'Abbasid Society, published by Routledge in 1998, is a widely cited scholarly study of the Graeco-Arabic translation movement, the sustained..."

This source names Baghdad directly: "alongside the house of Baha'u'llah in Baghdad, it became the third point of obligatory Baha'i pilgrimage, together with the Shrine of Baha'u'llah at Bahji and the Shrine of the Bab in Haifa."

Kadhimiya, in northern Baghdad, holds the tombs of the Imams Musa al-Kadhim and Muhammad al-Jawad.

This source names Baghdad directly: "family name points to origins near Baghdad."

This source names Baghdad directly: "century primary text, composed at Baghdad in the early fourth century of the Islamic calendar, and it is the actual work that fixed the number of canonical Qur'anic reading traditions at seven and..."

This source names Baghdad directly: "horoscope for the founding of Baghdad in 762 CE under Caliph al-Mansur."

This source names Baghdad directly: "horoscope cast for the founding of Baghdad in 762, and advocated the theory that conjunctions of Jupiter and Saturn mark the timing of major terrestrial and historical change."

This source names Baghdad directly: "crowd crush on the Al Aimmah bridge in Baghdad during a Shia religious commemoration."

This source names Baghdad directly: "Garden on the Tigris outside Baghdad, known to Baha'is as the Garden of Ridvan, is where Baha'u'llah spent twelve days in April 1863 before his banishment onward to Constantinople, and where he is..."

Baghdad's Kadhimiya district is a major Shia Twelver shrine and pilgrimage site, distinct from the hawza cities further south.

This source names Baghdad directly: "article on the 1258 siege of Baghdad, community-edited."

This source names Baghdad directly: "would proclaim his mission in Baghdad nineteen years later."

This source names Baghdad directly: "1863, Baha'u'llah left his house in Baghdad, where he had lived since an earlier exile from Persia, and entered the Najibiyyih garden on the banks of the Tigris."

This source names Baghdad directly: "Shiraz and the House of Baha'u'llah in Baghdad."

This source names Baghdad directly: "Khan's Mongol army besieged and took Baghdad between late January and 10 February 1258, ending five centuries of Abbasid rule as the caliphate's own political center."

Baghdad is the capital of the modern Republic of Iraq.

Baghdad was the seat of the Abbasid Caliphate, the central claimant to Sunni religious authority for five centuries.

The Abbasid Caliphate, based in Baghdad, was Sunni Islam's central political and religious institution.