المحمدية

المحمدية

The city al-Mahdi built at Rayy in 158 AH, moated and girded with a fired-brick suburb, which Rayy's people then called the inner city versus the outer walled town; Hisn al-Zaynabi fell inside it and the Lahirish family settled after its building; the old Rayy, called Arazi in Jahiliyya and said to have been swallowed, lay six farsakhs off and gave Rayy its name.