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Era: The Umayyad Period
Region: Levant & Iraq
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Overview

The River of al-Mubarak is a river in al-Sawad. Al-Baladhuri relates that Khalid ibn Abd Allah al-Qasri dug it, that al-Farazdaq composed a poem praising him, and that it waters the tilled land of al-Sawad. ¹

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Site of: al-Mubarak Canal and the Tigris Pontoon

People and things also explored

al-Farazdaq· هشام بن عبد الملك· Khalid ibn Abdallah al-Qasri· al-Mubarak Canal and the Tigris Pontoon

Sources

Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition) , p.408

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islam.museum contributors. “Nahr al-Mubarak”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/nahr-al-mubarak/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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al-Farazdaq

Hammam ibn Ghalib the poet; in al-Baladhuri he praised al-Mubarak canal which Khalid ibn Abdallah al-Qasri dug.