Wasit
واسط
A garrison city founded by al-Hajjaj in year 83 or 84; in al-Baladhuri he built its mosque, palace and Green Dome — it was reed-land, whence Wasit al-Qasab — equidistant from al-Ahwaz, Basra and Kufa; his letter to Abd al-Malik, 'I have founded a city in a karsh of land between the mountain and the two garrison towns,' is why the Wasitis were called al-Karshiyyin.
At a glance
- Era
- The Umayyad Period · The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
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Connections
People and things also explored
عبد الملك بن مروان· Abdallah ibn Darraj· الحجاج بن يوسف الثقفي· Mu'awiya ibn al-Muhallab· Muhammad ibn al-Qasim al-Thaqafi· Salih ibn Abd al-Rahman· Yazid ibn Abi Kabsha al-Saksaki· The Founding of Wasit
Sources
- Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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islam.museum contributors. “Wasit”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/wasit/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-13.