Erbil

أربيل

Capital of Kurdistan Region in Iraq.

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Levant & Iraq
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Birthplace of
Baha al-Din al-Irbili· Ibn al-Mustawfi al-Irbili· Ilyas ibn Jami' al-Irbili· Yusuf ibn Nafis
Place of death of
Ibn al-Mustawfi al-Irbili· Ilyas ibn Jami' al-Irbili
Site of
Sack of Erbil (1236)· Siege of Erbil (1258)

People and things also explored

al-Mustansir bi'llah Mansur ibn al-Zahir· al-Musta'sim bi'llah Abdullah ibn al-Mustansir, last caliph of Baghdad· Baghdad· Mosul· Sack of Erbil (1236)· Siege of Erbil (1258)· Baha al-Din al-Irbili· Ibn al-Mustawfi al-Irbili

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islam.museum contributors. “Erbil”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/erbil/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.

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al-Mustansir bi'llah Mansur ibn al-Zahir

Abbasid caliph [623–640], hailed Rajab 623; builder of the Mustansiriyya — four madhhab chairs, bimaristan, kitchen, hammam, 70,000-mithqal waqf. His host once routed the Tatars; in 632 he struck silver dirhams to spare people usurious gold-cutting. His fierce brother al-Khafaji was passed over for his mild son Ahmad.