NMC396Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Christianization, Mamluk, Minaret
1 Jul 2016
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Those places we encountered in terms of kufa, basra. Other than the written records, we have no understanding of hose places. The first place we have an understanding of from the written record is baghdad. With baghdad we have, on the banks of the tigris, there is the round city of baghdad. We have a sense of the caliph in his palace, we have the sense of the ministry and the mosque in the quarters around the round city of baghdad. But again, this is purely the written record and we have no sense of the physical reality of this place. But it gives us a sense of the early islamic city and the fact that, very soon after this creation of the round city, the centre of the islamic universe, the caliph moves outside into the suburbs. It wasn"t long after that, the caliph moved to the east bank of the.
