Baghdad Baghdad was founded during the second century hijri ...

Baghdad Baghdad was founded during the second century hijri , 145 AH in particular, by Mansur, the second ‘Abbasid caliph, and soon became one of the demographic concentration centers of the Shi‘ah.[^17] This fact was unambiguously proved in Imam al-Kazim ( ‘a ) burial procession.

The huge number of attendants seriously alarmed the ‘Abbasids so much so that Sulayman ibn Mansur, Harun ar-Rashid’s uncle, participated in it barefooted just to appease the people.[^18] Baghdad was founded in Iraq and most of the people of Iraq were Shi‘ah.

Although Baghdad at the beginning was a military and political city, with the passage of time the intellectual center of the Muslim world was also transferred there and Shi‘ah of the neighboring cities such as Kufah, Basrah, Mada’in among others took residence there and very quickly constituting a large population.

After the minor occultation { ghaybah as-sughrah }, Baghdad became the intellectual and religious center for the Shi‘ah who flourished there by virtue of the Shi‘ah government of Al Buyah (Buyeds), until such time that Shaykh…