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The fall of Baghdad
Feb 1258 — The caliph al-Musta‘sim, promised safety, surrenders after a week of bombardment; the city is sacked and he is rolled in a carpet and trampled — royal blood must not touch the earth. The 500-year Abbasid caliphate ends; the House of Wisdom’s books are scattered. The Tigris running black with ink is legend; the mass graves are not. Remember Baghdad.
This is one scene of Chapter 8 — The Hammer on Islam in The Mongol Empire, 1206–1294.
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