Islam Museum Islam Museum islam.museum
Search ⌕ ARENUR
Accessibility
Text size 100%

Saved on this device only — nothing is sent anywhere.

Rains, Collapsed Houses and Night Raids in Baghdad

أمطار بغداد وخراب الدور وكبسات اللصوص

c. February 944 CE · Jumada I 332 AH

Baghdad

In Jumada I 332 heavy rains brought houses down on their people; property values collapsed with the famine until cheap bread and dates returned — hammams, markets and mosques stood closed, men were paid to occupy houses just to guard them, and armed night-raiders forced the people to keep watch 1.

Depth

At a glance

Era
The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region
Levant & Iraq
Review
Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it

In time

930940950960 c.
Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era

In space

Baghdad

Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph

Overview

In Jumada I 332 the rains multiplied until houses collapsed and many died under the rubble; Baghdad property values kept falling amid dearth — coarse bread reached three ratls a dirham and dates two ratls. Bathhouses closed, markets and mosques went idle until men were sought to live in houses for a wage to guard them; night raids by thieves armed with candles grew, and people kept night watch with cudgels 1.

Connections

Explore the 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

  1. al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , p. 623
Cite this page

islam.museum contributors. “Rains, Collapsed Houses and Night Raids in Baghdad”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/baghdad-rains-collapse-332/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.

Improve this page on GitHub · Report an error · JSON

Wing

Time

Eras, timelines, this day in history, any year in the Islamic world. Related

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.