تأسيس المتوكلية

تأسيس المتوكلية

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In al-Baladhuri: al-Mutawakkil succeeded in Dhu al-Hijja 232, dwelt at al-Haruni and built much; he granted the people qati'as behind Sur man Ra'a in the preserve al-Mu'tasim had walled, and they spread through it; he built a congregational mosque at vast cost and had its minaret raised so the muezzins' voices would carry — visible from parasangs away — gathering the people who left the first mosque. Then he founded a city he named al-Mutawakkiliyya, between Karkh Fayruz and Qatul Kisra, absorbing the hamlet called al-Ma'huza, built its mosque, granted its qati'as and dwelt there in the first of 246 — a few months after founding it — dying there in Shawwal 247; al-Muntasir succeeded that night and moved back to Sur man Ra'a on Tuesday the tenth of Shawwal.