Abbasid Caliphate religious institutions and patronage (750–1258)

1. Abbasids seize the caliphate from Umayyads

   Jan 1, 750Labels: Abbasid dynasty, Umayyads

   • Britannica

2. Baghdad founded as Abbasid capital city

   Jan 1, 762Labels: Baghdad, Al-Man r

   • Britannica

3. Great Mosque built for Baghdad’s Friday prayer

   Jan 1, 763Labels: Great Mosque, Friday mosque

   • Great Mosque

4. Early Abbasid hospital patronage in Baghdad

   Jan 1, 805Labels: Bimaristan, H r

   • EBSCO

5. House of Wisdom flourishes as a caliphal library

   Jan 1, 810Labels: House of, Caliphal library

   • Britannica

6. Miḥnah begins to enforce doctrine by state power

   Jan 1, 833Labels: Mi nah, Al-Ma m

   • Britannica

7. Al-Mutawakkil ends the miḥnah and shifts policy

   Jan 1, 848Labels: Al-Mutawakkil, Mi nah

   • Britannica
   • MDPI

8. Waqf endowments expand long-term institutional funding

   Jan 1, 864Labels: Waqf endowment

   • Yaqeen
   • Waqf

9. Nizamiyya Madrasa founded to train Sunni scholars

   Jan 1, 1065Labels: Nizamiyya Madrasa, Ni m

   • Nizamiyya
   • Yaqeen

10. Mustansiriyya Madrasa opens as a major Abbasid institution

    Apr 6, 1233Labels: Mustansiriyya Madrasa, Al-Mustansir

    • Mustansiriyya

11. Mongols begin the siege of Baghdad

    Jan 29, 1258Labels: Siege of, H leg

    • Siege

12. Execution of al-Mustaʿṣim ends Abbasid rule in Baghdad

    Feb 20, 1258Labels: Al-Musta im, Sack of

    • Britannica
    • Siege