Samarra is a city in central Iraq, which served as the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate from 836 to 892. Founded by the caliph al-Mu'tasim, Samarra was briefly a major metropolis that stretched dozens of kilometers along the east bank of the Tigris, but was largely abandoned in the latter half of the 9th century, especially following the return of the caliphs to Baghdad.
Due to the relatively short period of occupation, extensive ruins of Abbasid Samarra have survived into modern times. The layout of the city can still be seen via aerial photography, revealing a vast network of planned streets, houses, palaces and mosques. Studies comparing the archeological evidence with information provided by Muslim historians have resulted in the identification of many of the toponyms within the former city.[1]
The archeological site of Samarra was named by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 2007, calling it "the best-preserved plan of an ancient large city."[2] The modern city bearing the same name lies within the Abbasid ruins.
Samarra is a city in central Iraq, which served as the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate from 836 to 892. Founded by the caliph al-Mu'tasim, Samarra was...
ruled by the Abbasids became dominated by Seljuk architecture. Abbasid cities were laid out on huge sites. The palaces and mosques of Samarra sprawled along...
commissioned in 848 and completed in 851 by the Abbasid caliph Al-Mutawakkil who reigned (in Samarra) from 847 until 861. At the time of construction...
kilometers (78 mi) north of Baghdad. The modern city of Samarra was founded in 836 by the Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tasim as a new administrative capital and...
Samarra (Arabic: فوضى سامراء, romanized: fawḍā Sāmarrāʾ) was a period of extreme internal instability from 861 to 870 in the history of the Abbasid Caliphate...
Egypt, Syria, and Khorasan back into Abbasid control. Especially after the "Anarchy at Samarra" (861–870), the Abbasid central government was weakened and...
as "Anarchy at Samarra", which lasted until 870 and brought the Abbasid Caliphate to the brink of collapse. The decline of the Abbasids started with the...
challenged their primacy. The political decline of the Abbasids had begun earlier, during the Anarchy at Samarra (861–870), which accelerated the fragmentation...
Great Mosque of Samarra with its distinctive Malwiya minaret. It also contains an old Zengid mosque. Samarra was the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate in...
internal stucco reliefs, which continued into Islamic art, for example in AbbasidSamarra, now using geometrical and plant-based ornament. As the arabesque reached...
rebuilt multiple times). In Samarra, the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate in present-day Iraq, the Great Mosque of Samarra was built in the years 848–852...
The Abbasid Revolution (Arabic: الثورة العباسية, romanized: ath-thawra al-ʿAbbāsiyya), also called the Movement of the Men of the Black Raiment (حركة...
kilometres (9.3 mi) north of Samarra in the Saladin Governorate, Iraq. The mosque was commissioned by the 10th Abbasid Caliph Al-Mutawakkil in 859. The...
time.: 3 Fragments of carved stucco decoration similar to that of AbbasidSamarra have been found at the site. Only one palace building has been investigated...
scenes. The Abbasid Caliphate (750–1258) witnessed the movement of the capital from Damascus to Baghdad, and then from Baghdad to Samarra. The shift to...
are killed. January 29 – Anarchy at Samarra: The rebel Salih ibn Wasif is hunted down and killed in AbbasidSamarra by troops of Musa ibn Bugha al-Kabir...
war (865–866) during the Anarchy at Samarra This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Abbasid Civil War. If an internal link led...
influenced by Abbasid architecture in Samarra and remains one of the most notable and best-preserved examples of 9th-century architecture from the Abbasid Caliphate...
survivals of stucco reliefs from the walls of palaces (but not mosques) in AbbasidSamarra, the Islamic capital between 836 and 892, provide examples of three...
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