Baghdad during the Abbasid Caliphate : from contemporary Arabic and Persian sources

Author(s)

• Le Strange, G. (Guy)

Bibliographic Information

Baghdad during the Abbasid Caliphate : from contemporary Arabic and Persian sources

by G. Le Strange

Greenwood Press, 1983

Note

Reprint. Originally published: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1900

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The topography of mediaeval Baghdad is worked out by means of the Ibn Serapion manuscript, which dates from about A.D. 900. By combining the network of water systems described in the manuscript with the radiating highroads, it has been possible for the author to plot out the various quarters of older Baghdad and draw the plan of the great metropolis of the Abbasid Caliphs.

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Details

• NCID: BA01323621
• ISBN:
  • 0313231982
• LCCN: 82025143
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Westport, Conn.
• Pages/Volumes: xxxi, 381 p., [13] leaves of plates (some folded)
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DS79.9.B25
  • DC19 : 956.7/4
  • NDLC : GE736
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Baghdad (Iraq)