Glass Workers

Basra

Date: 836 and later

The historian and geographer al-Yaʿqubi (d. 897-98), records the creation of the new city of Samarra by caliph al-Muʿtasim (r. 833-42). Al-Yaʿqubi writes the caliph … read more

Al-Qadisiyya

Date: mid-twelfth century

In his Nuzhat al-mushtāq fi ikhtirāq al-afāq, al-Idrisi (d. 1164) notes the presence of glass workshops in al-Qadisiyya … read more

Karbalaʾ

Date: 1969

James Underwood writes about the glass worker Haji Seyed Asghar Sobhani, and records that he worked on a great Shiʿite shrine in Karbalaʾ, Iraq … 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 al-Muʿtasim (r. 833-42). Al-Yaʿqubi writes the caliph summoned artisans … read more