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Baghdad. City of Peace, City of Blood.

Baghdad. City of Peace, City of Blood.

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Marozzi, Justin.
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London, Allen Lane, 2014. 8:o. xlviij, 458, (1) pp., (24) plate-p. Illustrated. Publishers grey boards with illustrated unclipped (£ 25.00) dust jacket. Very good copy.

350 kr

Contents: List of Illustrations; List of Maps; Acknowledgements; A Note on Spelling; The Abbasid Dynasty; Preface; The Caliph and His Capital: Mansur and the Foundation of Baghdad (750-775); Harun al Rashid and A Thousand and One Nights in Baghdad (775-809); 'The Fountainhead of Scholars', Centre of the World (809-892); The Later Abbasids: Farewell to The Meadows of Gold (892-1258); 'This Pilgrimage of Destruction': The Mongol and Tatar Storm (1258-1401); Black Sheep, White Sheep (1401-1534); Of Turks and Travellers (1534-1639); Plagues, Pashas and Mamluks (1639-1831); Empires Collide (1831-1917); A Very British Monarchy: Three Kings in Baghdad (1917-1958); Coups, Communists and Baathists: The Mother of All Bloodshed (1958-); appendix: Iraqi security apparatus under Saddam Hussein; Bibliography; Notes; Index.

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