BAGHDAD BIBLIOGRAPHY
This bibliography gathers key references on the history of medieval Baghdad. It does not claim to be exhaustive and does not include primary sources, except for those cited within the article (for Arabic sources on Baghdad, see Scheiner, 2022).
SOURCES
[ANONYMOUS], Maxime Rodinson et al. (trans.), Medieval Arab Cookery, Devon, Prospect Books, 1998.
[ANONYMOUS], Ṭāriq Nāfiʿ al-Ḥamdānī (ed.), Taʾrīkh al-Ghiyāthī, Baghdad, Maṭbaʿat Asʿad, 1975.
BAR HEBRAEUS (IBN AL-ʿIBRĪ), A. Ṣāliḥānī, S. J. (ed.), Taʾrīkh Mukhtaṣar al-Duwal, Beirut, al-Maṭbaʿa al-Kāthūlīkiyya li-l-Ābāʾ al-Yasūʿiyyīn, 1890.
IBN AL-DUBAYTHĪ, Bashshār ʿAwwād Maʿrūf (ed.), Dhayl taʾrīkh Madīnat al-salām Baghdād, 2 vols., Baghdad, Maṭbaʿat Dār al-salām, 1974, Manshūrāt wizārat al-iʿlām, Silsilat kutub al-turāth 36.
IBN AL-JAWZĪ, [ed. unknown], Aḥkām al-nisāʾ, Cairo, Dār al-hudā al-muḥammadī, 1985.
IBN AL-SĀʿĪ, Mustafa Jawad (ed.), Nisaʾ al-Khulafāʾ, Cairo, Dar al-Maʿārif, 1968.
IBN AL-SĀʿĪ, Shawkat Toorawa (ed. and trans.), Nisaʾ al-Khulafāʾ, Consorts of the Caliphs: Women and the Court of Baghdad, New York, New York University Press, 2015.
IBN AL-DUBAYTHĪ, Bashshār ʿAwwād Maʿrūf (ed.), Dhayl taʾrīkh Madīnat al-salām Baghdād, 5 vols., Beirut, Dār al-gharb al-islāmī, 1427/2006.
[IBN SAYYĀR], Nawal Nasrallah (trans.), Annals of the Caliphs’ Kitchens: Ibn Sayyār Al-Warrāq’s Tenth-Century Baghdadi Cookbook, Leiden-Boston, Islamic History and Civilization 70, Brill, 2007.
AL-KHAṬĪB AL-BAGHDĀDĪ, Muḥammad Amīn al-Hanjī (ed.), Taʾrīkh Baghdād, 14 vols., Baghdād, Maṭbaʿat al-Saʿāda, 1931.
MISKAWAYH, Abū al-Qāsim Imāmī (ed.), Tajārib al-umam wa-taʿāqub al-himam, 8 vols., Tehran, Dār Sorūsh li-l-ṭibāʿa wa-l-nashr, 2000-2002.
SIBṬ IBN AL-JAWZĪ, Kāmil Salmān al-Jubūrī (ed.), Mirʾāt al-zamān fī taʾrīkh al-aʿyān, 15 vols., Beirut, Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 2013.
SIBṬ IBN AL-JAWZĪ, Ibrāhīm al-Zaybaq (ed.), Mirʾāt al-zamān fī taʾrīkh al-aʿyān, 23 vols., Damascus, Dār al-Risāla al-ʿālamiyya, 2013.
AL-YAʿQŪBĪ, M. J. de Goeje (ed.), Kitāb al-Buldān, 8 vols., Leiden, Brill, 1870-94, Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum.
WORKING TOOLS
EI2: Encyclopædia of Islam, ed. H. A. R. Gibb et al., 2nd edition, 11 vols., Leiden, Brill, 1960‑2004.
EI³: Encyclopædia of Islam, ed. Kate Fleet et al., 3rd edition (online edition), Leiden, Brill, 2007–.
EIr: Encyclopædia Iranica, ed. Ehsan Yarshater et al., online edition, New York, 1996–.
MODERN STUDIES
Baghdad: Eye’s Delight/Baghdād: Qurrat al-ʿAyn, 2023, Milan, Silvana Editoriale – Qatar Museums.
ADAMS, Robert McCormick, 1965, Land behind Baghdad. A History of Settlement on the Diyala Plains, Chicago-London, University of Chicago Press.
AHOLA, Judith, 2004, The Community of Scholars: an analysis of the biographical data from the Taʾrīkh Baghdād, PhD diss., University of St Andrews (unpublished).
AHOLA Judith and OSTI, Letizia, 2013, “Baghdad at the time of al-Muqtadir”, in VAN BERKEL, Maaike et al., Crisis and Continuity at the Abbasid Court. Formal and Informal Politics in the Caliphate of al-Muqtadir (295–320/908-32), Leiden-Boston, Brill, History and Civilization Studies and Texts 102, 221–241.
AHSAN, Manazir M., 1979, Social Life Under the Abbasids, 170–289 AH, 786–902 AD, London-New York, Addison-Wesley Longman.
AIGLE, Denise, 2006, “Iran Under Mongol Domination: The Effectiveness and Failings of a Dual Administrative System”, Bulletin d’Études Orientales, 57 (Supplément), 65–78.
AL-HAKKAK, Ghalib, 1983, “Essai d’interprétation des textes relatifs à la Ville Ronde de Bagdad”, Revue des Études Islamiques, 51, 149–160.
AL-ʿAMĪD, T.M., 1387/1967, Baghdād, madīnat al-Manṣūr al-mudawwara, Najaf, Maṭbaʿat al-Nuʿmān.
ALSHAAR, Nuha, 2022, “Baghdād under Būyid rule”, in SCHEINER, Jens and TORAL, Isabel (eds.), Baghdād From Its Beginnings to the 14th Century, Leiden, Brill, Handbook of Oriental Studies 166, 194–226.
AMABE, Fukuzo, 2016, Urban Autonomy in Medieval Islam. Damascus, Aleppo, Cordoba, Toledo, Valencia and Tunis, Leiden-Boston, Brill, Islamic History and Civilization Studies and Texts 128.
ANTRIM, Zayde, 2011, “Connectivity and Creativity: Representations of Baghdad’s Centrality, 3rd/9th to 5th/11th Centuries”, in ÜSTÜN, İ. S. (ed.), Islam Medeniyetinde Baǧdat, Istanbul, Ilâhiyat Fakültesi Vakfi Yayinlari, 55–74.
AUBE, Sandra, KOUAMÉ, Thierry and VALLET, Éric (eds.), 2013, Lumières de la sagesse : écoles médiévales d’Orient et d’Occident, Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne–Institut du Monde Arabe.
ʿAZZĀWĪ, ʿAbbās, 2004 (1rst ed. 1935), Taʾrīkh al-ʿIrāq bayna al-iḥtilālayn, Baghdad, al-Dār al-ʿarabiyya li-l-mawsūʿāt, 8 vol.
BASHARIN, Pavel, 2022, “The Ṣūfī School of Baghdād. Persons and Teachings”, in SCHEINER, Jens and TORAL, Isabel (eds.), Baghdād From Its Beginnings to the 14th Century, Leiden, Brill, Handbook of Oriental Studies 166, 633–681.
BAYHOM-DAOU, Tamima, 2005, Shaykh Mufid, Oxford, Oneworld Publications, Makers of the Muslim World Series.
BEN AZZOUNA, Nourane, 2018, Aux origines du classicisme. Calligraphes et bibliophiles au temps des dynasties mongoles (Les Ilkhanides et les Djalayirides 656–814 / 1258–1411), Leiden, Brill, Islamic Manuscripts and Books 17.
BENNISON, Amira, 2010, The Great Caliphs: The Golden Age of the ‘Abbasid Empire, New Haven, Yale University Press.
VAN DEN BENT, Josephine, forthcoming, “Responsibilities, Realities, and Responses to Crises. Maintenance of Water Infrastructure in Early Abbasid and Early Buyid Baghdad; ca. 750–1000 CE”, in VAN DEN BENT, Josephine, VAN BERKEL, Maaike and HAYES, Edmund (ed.), Water Management in the Premodern Middle East. Forces from “above” and “below”, Leiden, Leiden University Press, Middle East Environmental Histories (forthcoming).
VAN BERKEL, Maaike et al., 2013, Crisis and Continuity at the Abbasid Court. Formal and Informal Politics in the Caliphate of al-Muqtadir (295–320/908–32), Leiden-Boston, Brill, Islamic History and Civilization Studies and Texts 102.
VAN BERKEL, Maaike, 2014, “Reconstructing Archival Practices in Abbasid Baghdad”, Journal of Abbasid Studies, 1, 7–22.
BERTHIER, Sophie (ed.), 2001, Peuplement rural et aménagements hydro-agricoles dans la moyenne vallée de l’Euphrate, fin VIIe–XIXe siècle, Damascus, PIFD 191.
BIRAN, Michal, 2016, “Music in the Conquest of Baghdad: Safi al-Din Urmawi and the Ilkhanid Circle of Musicians”, in DE NICOLA, Bruno and MELVILLE, Charles (eds.), The Mongols’ Middle East, Leiden, Brill, 133–154.
BIRAN, Michal, 2019, “Libraries, Books, and Transmission of Knowledge in Ilkhanid Baghdad”, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 62, 464–502.
BIRAN, Michal, 2022, “Baghdad under Mongol Rule”, in SCHEINER, Jens and TORAL, Isabel (eds.), Baghdād From Its Beginnings to the 14th Century, Leiden, Brill, Handbook of Oriental Studies 166, 285–315.
BIRAN, Michal, 2023, “Ilkhanid Baghdad (1258–1335): Between the Local and the Global”, in DUNLOP, Anne (ed.), The Mongols in Global History and Art History, Florence, I Tatti – The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies; Rome, Officina Libraria, 185–215.
BORRONI, Massimiliano, 2015, “Iranian Festivals and Political Discourse under the Abbasids”, Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale, 51, 5–24.
BORRONI, Massimiliano, 2017, Il nuovo giorno dell’impero – Il capodanno solare dei califfi abbasidi, Eurasiatica, Quaderni di studi su Balcani, Anatolia, Iran, Caucaso e Asia Centrale 9, Venise, Ca’ Foscari, Digital Publishing.
BRACK, Jonathan, BIRAN, Michal and AMITAI, Reuven, 2024, “Plague and the Mongol conquest of Baghdad (1258)? A reevaluation of the sources”, Medical History, online publication, 1–19. DOI: 10.1017/mdh.2023.38
BROWN, Peter J. and VAN DEN BENT, Josephine, 2025, “Constructing Hydraulic Infrastructure in the ʿAbbāsid and Ṭūlūnid Capitals: Water Conduits in Baghdad, Samarra and Cairo between the Eighth and Ninth Centuries”, al-Masāq, 37, 126–145.
BULLIET, Richard W., 2022, “The Economic Parameters of Baghdād and Its Hinterland”, in SCHEINER, Jens and TORAL, Isabel (eds.), Baghdād From Its Beginnings to the 14th Century, Leiden, Brill, Handbook of Oriental Studies 166, 316–336.
CAHEN, Claude, 1959, “Mouvements populaires et autonomisme urbain dans l’Asie musulmane du Moyen Âge”, Arabica, 5 (1958), 225–250 ; 6 (1959), 25–56 et 233–265.
CAIRE, Audrey, 2022, L’émergence d’une nouvelle culture alimentaire dans le discours des élites (Iraq, Ier–IVe/VIIe–Xe siècle), PhD diss., Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (unpublished).
CANARD, Marius, 1962, “Baġdād au IVe siècle de l’Hégire (Xe siècle de l’ère chrétienne)”, Arabica, 9, 267–287.
CHEIKH-MOUSSA, Abdallah, 2000, “Bagdad depuis sa fondation jusqu’au début du Xe siècle”, in GARCIN, Jean-Claude (ed.), Grandes villes méditerranéennes du monde musulman médiéval, Rome, École Française de Rome, 113–116.
COOK, Michael, 2001, Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
COOPERSON, Michael, 1996, “Baghdad in Rhetoric and Narrative”, Muqarnas, 13, 99–113.
COOPERSON, Michael, 2017, “The Abbasid ‘Golden Age’: An Excavation”, Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā, 25, 41–65.
CRESWELL, K.A.C., 1940, Early Muslim architecture. II. Early ʿAbbāsids. Umayyads of Cordova. Aghlabids. Ṭūlūnids and Samānids A. D. 751–905, Oxford, Clarendon Press.
DE NICOLA, Bruno, 2023, “A Manuscript Witness of Cultural Activity in Mongol Baghdad. Notes on ms Leiden Or. 95”, Journal of Islamic Manuscripts, 14, 70–108.
DENOIX, Sylvie and RENEL, Hélène (eds.), 2022, Atlas des mondes musulmans médiévaux, Paris, CNRS Éditions.
DONOHUE, John, 2003, The Buwayhid Dynasty in Iraq 334h./945 to 403h./1012: Shaping Institutions for the Future, Leiden, Brill.
DURI, A. A., 1960, “Baghdād”, EI², 1.
DURKIN-MEISTERERNST, Desmond, 2022, “Zoroastrians, Manicheans and Gnostics in Baghdād and Its Hinterland”, in SCHEINER, Jens and TORAL, Isabel (eds.), Baghdād From Its Beginnings to the 14th Century, Leiden, Brill, Handbook of Oriental Studies 166, 765–784.
ECHE, Youssef, 1967, Les bibliothèques arabes publiques et semi-publiques en Mésopotamie, Syrie et Égypte au Moyen Âge, Damascus, Ifead.
EL CHEIKH, Nadia Maria, 2003, “The Qahramâna in the Abbasid Court: Position and Functions”, Studia Islamica, 97, 41–55.
EL CHEIKH, Nadia Maria, 2005, “Revisiting the Abbasid Harems”, Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, 1/3, 1–19.
EL CHEIKH, Nadia Maria, 2010, “Caliphal Harems, Household Harems: Baghdad in the Fourth/Tenth Century”, in BOOTH, Marilyn (ed.), Harem Histories: Envisioning Places and Living Spaces, Durham-London, Duke University Press, 87–103.
EL CHEIKH, Nadia Maria, 2014, “The Institutionalization of Abbasid Ceremonial”, in HUDSON, J. and RODRIGUEZ, A. (eds.), Diverging Paths? The Shapes of Power and Institutions in Medieval Christendom and Islam, Leiden-Boston, Brill, 351–370.
EL CHEIKH, Nadia Maria, 2015, Women, Islam and Abbasid Identity, Cambridge MA – London, Harvard University Press.
EL CHEIKH, Nadia Maria, 2021, “Professional Mobility and Social Capital: A Note on the muhaddithat in Kitab Tarikh Baghdad”, in MERHEB, Mohammed (ed.), Professional Mobility in Islamic Societies (700–1750): New Concepts and Approaches, Leiden, Brill, Handbook of Oriental Studies.
EL-ALI, Saleh A., 1970, “The Foundation of Baghdad”, in HOURANI, Albert and STERN, Samuel (eds.), The Islamic City, Papers on Islamic History 1, Oxford, Cassirer – University of Pennsylvania Press, 87–101.
ELLENBLUM, Ronnie, 2012, “The Fall of Baghdad”, in ELLENBLUM, R. (ed.), The Collapse of the Eastern Mediterranean: Climate Change and the Decline of the East, 950–1072, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, chap. 5, 88–121.
EL-HIBRI, Tayeb, 2021, The Abbasid Caliphate: A History, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
EPHRAT, Daphna, 1996, “Learning in the First Century of the Madrasah in Baghdad: A Reconsideration of the Social Significance of Institutionalization”, Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review, 3:1–2, 77–103.
EPHRAT, Daphna, 2000, A Learned Society in a Period of Transition: The Sunni ʿUlamaʾ of Eleventh Century Baghdad, New York – Albany, SUNY Press.
EPHRAT, Daphna, 2002, “Religious Leadership and Associations in the Public Sphere of Seljuk Baghdad”, in HOEXTERM, M., EISENSTADT, S.N. and LEVTZION, N. (eds.), The Public Sphere in Muslim Societies, Albany, SUNY Press, 31–48.
EPHRAT, Daphna, 2005, “Madhhab and Madrasa in Fifth/Eleventh-Century Baghdad”, in VOGEL, Frank E., PETERS, Rudolph and BEARMAN, Peri (eds.), The Islamic School of Law: Evolution, Devolution, and Progress, Harvard Series in Islamic Law, Harvard, Harvard University Press, p. 77–93.
EPHRAT, Daphna, 2011, “The Seljuqs and the public sphere in the period of Sunni revivalism: the view from Baghdad”, in LANGE, Christian and MECIT, Songül (eds.), The Seljuqs – Politics, Society and Culture, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 139–156.
FANCY, Nahyan and GREEN, Monica, 2021, “Plague and the Fall of Baghdad (1258)”, Medical History, 65(2), 157–177.
GAREIL, Rémy, 2019, Savoirs rationnels, pouvoir et construction de l’universel au IVe/Xe siècle : le modèle bagdadien en question, PhD Diss., Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (unpublished).
GILLI-ELEWY, Hend, 2011a, “Al-Ḥawādiṯ al-ǧāmiʿa: A Contemporary Account of the Mongol Conquest of Baghdad, 656/1258”, Arabica, 58/5, 353–371.
GILLI-ELEWY, Hend, 2011b, “The Mongol Court in Baghdad: The Juwaynī Brothers between Local Court and Central Court”, in FUESS, Albrecht and HARTUNG, Jan-Peter (eds.), Court Cultures in the Muslim World, Seventh to Nineteenth Centuries, London, Routledge, 168–181.
GILLI-ELEWY, Hend, 2022, “Baghdād under the Late ʿAbbāsid Caliphs”, in SCHEINER, Jens and TORAL, Isabel (eds.), Baghdād From Its Beginnings to the 14th Century, Leiden, Brill, Handbook of Oriental Studies 166, 265–284.
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GUTAS, Dimitri, 1998, Greek Thought, Arabic Culture. The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in Baghdad and Early ʿAbbāsid Society (2nd–4th/8th–10th c.), London–New York, Routledge.
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