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The most devastating Mongol attack in history. After demolishing the Order of Assassins, Hulagu Khan leads an enormous Mongol army against the great city of Baghdad. The Abbasid caliph has angered the Mongols, and his people will suffer for it. Few will survive the wrath of the Khan. A huge thank you to‪@TheJackmeisterMongolHistory‬ for all the guidance on this one!
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PRIMARY SOURCES
AlDin Fadl Allah, R. (1999). Jamiʻu'tTawarikh: A history of the Mongols. (W. M. Thackston, Trans.) (Vol. 2). Harvard University. Rashid AlDin is the principal primary source quoted throughout this episode.

AlDin Shirazi, Q. (2018). The Mongols in Iran: Qutb alDin Shirazi's akhbarI moghulan. (G. Lane, Trans.). Routledge.

Ganjakets'i, K. (1986). 60. Destruction of Baghdad. In R. Bedrosian (Trans.), History of the Armenians. essay, Sources of the Armenian Tradition. Retrieved from http://www.attalus.org/armenian/kgtoc....

GilliElewy, H. (Trans.). (2011). AlAwādi alğāmia: A contemporary account of the Mongol conquest of Baghdad, 656/1258. Arabica, 58(5), 353–371. https://doi.org/10.1163/157005811X56156. This work has traditionally been attributed to the Baghdadi historian Ibn alFuwati but, as GilliElewy and others note, this may be an erroneous attribution. The authenticity of the source is not in doubt, only its author. This is the source for the quotation about the defiling of the caliphal tombs, as well as the "dead lay as mounds..." passage.
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SECONDARY SOURCES
Ahmed, L. (2021). Women and gender in islam: Historical roots of a modern debate (2nd ed.). Yale University Press.

Elices, J. (2020, August 1). Medieval robots? they were just one of this Muslim inventor's creations. National Geographic. Retrieved November 11, 2022, from https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/....

Hyman, A., Walsh, J. J., & Williams, T. (Eds.). (2010). Islamic philosophy. In Philosophy in the Middle Ages: The Christian, Islamic and Jewish tradition (3rd ed., pp. 220–337). essay, Hackett. Information regarding the intellectual tradition in Baghdad and the dominant currents of Aristotelian and Platonist thought.

Le Strange, G. (2018). Baghdad during the Abbasid Caliphate from contemporary Arabic and Persian sources. Routledge. (Original work published in 1900).

Qusti, S. H. (1979). The Mongol invasion of the Fertile Crescent 12571260 (thesis). Retrieved from https://d.lib.msu.edu/etd/37336/datas.... 92100 features a good overview of the aftermath and conflicting death tolls given by contemporary and later authors.

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