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In 329 the Euphrates rose eleven cubits and burst out by Anbar, sweeping villages under — people, beasts and wild animals drowned; the water poured through al-Sarat toward Baghdad into the western quarter's streets until Bab al-Anbar street was submerged and not a house of it left standing. Buildings collapsed onto al-Sarat, the iron bridge of al-Sarat fell, part of the Daylij canal broke, and the Tigris rose eighteen cubits in May and June ¹.

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.

The Euphrates flood and the ruin of Bab al-Anbar

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The Nizamiyya Madrasa of Baghdad