Baghdad(English, Electronic book text, Marozzi Justin)

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Baghdad(English, Electronic book text, Marozzi Justin) is written by Marozzi Justin and published by The Perseus Books Group. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0306823993 (ISBN 10) and 9780306823992 (ISBN 13).

Over thirteen centuries, Baghdad has enjoyed both cultural and commercial pre-eminence, boasting artistic and intellectual sophistication and an economy once the envy of the world. It was here, in the time of the Caliphs, that the Thousand and One Nights were set. Yet it has also been a city of great hardships, beset by epidemics, famines, floods, and numerous foreign invasions which have brought terrible bloodshed. This is the history of its storytellers and its tyrants, of its philosophers and conquerors. Here, in the first new history of Baghdad in nearly 80 years, Justin Marozzi brings to life the whole tumultuous history of what was once the greatest capital on earth.