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القحط الشديد ببغداد سنة ٣٧٣هـ

القحط الشديد ببغداد سنة ٣٧٣هـ

c. 983 CE · 373 AH

Baghdad

Severe drought-famine struck Baghdad in 373: a ghurara of grain reached four hundred dirhams 1.

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Era
The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region
Levant & Iraq
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In time

9709809901000 c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era

In space

Baghdad

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موجز

في سنة ثلاث وسبعين وثلاثمائة ضرب القحط الشديد بغداد 1.

غلاء القمح

بلغ حساب الغرارة أربعمائة درهم — سعراً يجعل الخبز بعيداً عن متناول العامة 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· الحريق العظيم ببغداد سنة 485· برد العراق العظيم· فتنة السنة والرافضة ببغداد سنة 483

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali, p. 80
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islam.museum contributors. “القحط الشديد ببغداد سنة ٣٧٣هـ”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/baghdad-famine-373/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-18.

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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.