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زلزلة بغداد يوم عرفة سنة 511

زلزلة بغداد يوم عرفة سنة 511

c. 1117 CE · 511 AH

Baghdad

In 511 Baghdad was shaken on the Day of Arafa until its walls swayed back and forth; the caliph al-Mustazhir's death followed soon after 1.

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Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
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In time

1100111011201130 c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks

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Baghdad

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موجز

في سنة إحدى عشرة وخمسمائة زُلزلت بغداد يوم عرفة فكانت الحيطان تذهب وتجيء 1.

ما بعدها

كان عقيبها موت الخليفة المستظهر بالله 1.

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Baghdad

People and things also explored

The Nizamiyya Madrasa of Baghdad· Bayt al-Hikma — the House of Wisdom· دخول أبي كاليجار بغداد وضرب العلبل· فتنة الشيعة والسنة بباب الطاق سنة 348· موت السلطان شرف الدولة وفوضى بغداد· القحط الشديد ببغداد سنة ٣٧٣هـ· الحريق العظيم ببغداد سنة 485· برد العراق العظيم

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali, p. 510
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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.