Depth
At a glance
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
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In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Overview
In Rabi' I 309 fires swept Bab al-Sham, Nasr's small market and the shoemakers' quarter of Karkh between the New Bridge and the Harranian arch — many died; and a man of the zanadiqa was killed and thrown into a fire-pit at Bab al-Makhram in which many perished 1.
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
- al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , p. 449
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Fires at Bab al-Sham and Karkh”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/bab-sham-fires-309/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.