Caliph Al-Mansur ordered the building of Baghdad between AD762 and AD767 ... on them with words from the holy book, the Qur’an. Mosques had minarets which are thin towers with balconies.

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2025 shows the spiraling minaret of Abu Dulaf Mosque on the outskirts of Samarra, in Salahuddin province, Iraq. Samarra Archaeological City, located about 130 km north of Iraqi capital Baghdad ...

Baghdad’s libraries were looted and burned ... The library is tucked into one corner of the vast and beautiful mosque complex which houses the shrine of Sheikh Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani, an 11th ...