Baghdad
place · 3 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages
بغداد · Baghdād · al-Baghdādī · البغدادي
in the texts
Bayān zaghl al-ʻilm wa-al-ṭalab
The Abbasid capital where al-Ḥumaydī died after fleeing Andalusian persecution, keeping his Ẓāhirī allegiance hidden.
[8] the East, and thereafter made no open show of his school until he died at Baghdād.
as they did at Baghdād in the days of al-Mustaẓhir bi-Allāh the ʻAbbāsid in the case of the Qarāmiṭah, and in Egypt after the passing of the ʻUbaydī state in the case of the hangers-on of the Bāṭinīyah, where the interest of the Muslims made it obligatory to adopt Mālik's word.
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
The Abbasid capital, cited as a masculine-form place-name that takes feminine agreement because the word for 'city' is understood.
Upon this principle they make the names of the cities feminine even when their form is not feminine, so that we say 'Baghdād was conquered' and 'Miṣr was peopled' or 'al-Shām', implying the word «city».
And when the solidarity of lineage (*ʻaṣabīyah*) weakened among them they named themselves in relation to the lands, as al-Dimashqī, al-Baghdādī, al-Baṣrī, al-Bukhārī, al-Naysābūrī and others — so that the survival of some twenty-odd of the ancient tribes under the names of animals is nothing strange.
Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq
Baghdad, named as the city about which no positive inference may be drawn from a bare negation.
8 — The absence of one matter from a thing does not require the absence of another matter that has no connection with the first, nor its establishment — as when we are told, Khālid is not in Bayrūt.