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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.

In addition to the shrine, two Sunni mosques were attacked late Friday in southwest Baghdad by a "large number of men" wielding a variety of weapons, including rocket-propelled grenades ...

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 ...

I live here in Baghdad – a city of over a million people ... round and we’ve put the important things in the middle: Our mosque where we all pray 5 times a day and… This building – the ...