Basra since the Mongol conquest - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Basra since the Mongol conquest - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Longrigg, Steven Helmsley

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1060962
Doc. NO	:	ALei1359
Main Entry	:	Lang, Katherine H.
	:	Longrigg, Steven Helmsley
Title & Author	:	Basra since the Mongol conquest - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Longrigg, Steven Helmsley
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(1,184 words)
Abstract	:	From the perspective of the Īlkhānids, who seized Iraq in 656/1258, Basra was peripheral. In the mid-eighth/fourteenth century, Ibn Baṭṭūṭa (d. 770/1368–9 or 779/1377) found the city largely in ruins, its canals deteriorating. Basra was already moving towards its modern location at al-ʿUbulla. By the early tenth/sixteenth century, the move was complete and the city began an important period in its history. Basra was of strategic significance in the tenth/sixteenth and eleventh/seventeenth centuries because of its location on the frontier
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei1359.pdf