Architects Baghdad Date: c. 762-766 Khatib al-Baghdadi (fl. eleventh century) writes that when the Abbasid caliph al-Mansur (r. 754-75) built … read more Kufa Date: c. 638 Al-Tabari, Abu Jaʿfar Muhammad (d. 923), describes the building of a new garrison city in Kufa, including the citadel … read more Mosul Date: 1148 Mustafa al-Baghdadi is named in an inscription as the architect of the mihrab in the Main Mosque in Mosul … read more Samarra Date: 836 and later The historian and geographer al-Yaʿqubi (d. 897-98), records the creation of the new city of Samarra by caliph … read more
