A Persian sage of this city, al-Tabari, got into repeated feuds with its religious establishment.Tahir ibn Husayn laid siege to this city for a year after the Battle of Rayy i
A Persian sage of this city, al-Tabari, got into repeated feuds with its religious establishment.Tahir ibn Husayn laid siege to this city for a year after the Battle of Rayy in the Fourth Fitna.Ahmad Ibn Hanbal was imprisoned in this city for opposing the Mu'tazilah beliefs of its ruler. Therise of the Turkish ghulam slave class led this city to be briefly supplanted by Samarra underal-Mu'tasim. This "Round City" became a (*) capital after the Battle of the Zab. A man ruling from thiscity sent the elephant Abul-Abbas to Charlemagne and set up its famed House of Wisdom. It served as thecapital for rulers like al-Ma'mun and Harun al-Rashid during the Islamic Golden Age. For 10 points, namethis capital of the Abbasid Caliphate, still the capital of Iraq.
A Persian sage of this city, al-Tabari, got into repeated feuds with its religious establishment.
Baghdad, Iraq [or Bagdad]