The regions and borders of the Islamic East, the era of the Abbasid state

Document Type : Academic scientific reviews of any other material related to the main domains of this Journal.

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Faculty of Arts, Aswan University

Abstract

This region was called the Islamic East at that time because the capital of the Abbasid state at that time was Baghdad. Therefore, the Islamic East annexed this country, which lies east of Baghdad. It included the regions of Azerbaijan in the northwest, Persia in the southwest, Sijistan in the southeast, and Khorasan in the northeast (), and the first to mention the borders of the Islamic East was Ibn Rustah in his book Al-Alaq Al-Nafisa, where he divided the globe into four sections; The first quarter was the quarter of the Islamic East. He used to start from Baghdad and then head towards the mountains, Azerbaijan, Qazvin, Zanjan, Qom, Isfahan, Rayy, Tabaristan, Gorgan, Sijistan, Khorasan, and what connected to Khorasan from Tibet and Turkestan.

This study dealt with the impact of water on military battles in the era of the Islamic Levant during the second Abbasid era (232-656 AH / 847-1258 AD).

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