By Nile and Tigris : a narrative of Journeys in Egypt and Mesopotamia on behalf of the British Museum between the years 1886 and 1913 . e KhalifahNasir ad-Din, 618 = 1221, and when Murad IVpassed through it after his capture of Baghdad, it wasblocked up, and has not been opened since. ^ There wasalso the Gate of the Bridge of Boats. There are ten largetowers or bastions on the city wall and several smallones. In the western corner of the town is Al-Kalah,or the Castle. The Sarayah is close to the river, andis part of the CoUege of Mustansir Billah, 630 = ; this Khalifah
By Nile and Tigris : a narrative of Journeys in Egypt and Mesopotamia on behalf of the British Museum between the years 1886 and 1913 . e KhalifahNasir ad-Din, 618 = 1221, and when Murad IVpassed through it after his capture of Baghdad, it wasblocked up, and has not been opened since. ^ There wasalso the Gate of the Bridge of Boats. There are ten largetowers or bastions on the city wall and several smallones. In the western corner of the town is Al-Kalah,or the Castle. The Sarayah is close to the river, andis part of the CoUege of Mustansir Billah, 630 = ; this Khalifah built his mosque three years Takiyahs, , hospices, are numerous in Baghdad,and were founded by several different orders of Tigris near the city is 600-620 feet wide. Thebridge of boats consists of thirty-four small boats chained ^ See Reisebeschreibung, Copenhagen, 1778, vol. ii, p. 293 ff. » Le Strange also mentions the Basaliyah Gate, or the Gate ofKalwadha, or the Bab al-Khalaj, or Bab ash-Sharki {, EasternGate) ; this is on the south side of the city. See Baghdad, p. 281. To face p. 204 vcl i. Kinneir, Ker Porter, Buckingham. 205 together, but the floods sometimes sweep it away.* Intimes of flood the river rises twenty feet. In WestBaghdad there are many gardens, and the northernhalf of it represents a part of the site of the oldest city ofBaghdad. Niebuhr then describes briefly the Takiyahof the Baktash Dervishes, and the so-called Tomb ofZubedah, and the burial place of Bahlul Danah, and afew lesser buildings, and then goes on to speak of Kazi-men. In Baghdad there are (continues Niebuhr) twentymosques with minarets and a great many monks come to Baghdad, and all are object is not to convert the Muslims to Christianity,but to make native Christians acknowledge the Pope asthe head of the churches. As a sort of Appendix tohis description of Baghdad, Niebuhr gives a list of allthe Pashas who have ruled over th
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