NMC396Y1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Kairouan, Landform, Ahmad Ibn Tulun

• School: UTSG
• Department: Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations
• Course: NMC396Y1
• Professor: Edward Keall

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Cities no layout places for soldiers quartered in districts otherwise might fight each other to death. Kufa basra the first time we have a sense from written record . We have on the bank of the tigris the round city of baghdad. We have a sense of the caliph and his palace. We have the sense of military, mosque, courtiers and all social status no sense of the physical reality of this place. Gives us a sense of the early islamic city. Very soon after this creation of the reound city. Centre of the islamic universe caliph moved to the suburbs east bank. Era of the buyyids and seljuks invaders who established their base on the east bank of the tigris where baghdad grew up. Round city just a creation and concept of the ideal centre of the universe. Replaced by a regular city serving the palaces creating the urban now gone.