Detail map of Baghdad, Al Saadoon Park, Baghdad Governorate, Iraq Overview map of Baghdad, Al Saadoon Park, Baghdad Governorate, Iraq

A: Baghdad, Al Saadoon Park, Baghdad Governorate, Iraq

There May be Over 100 Booksellers and 30 Public Libraries in Baghdad

891 CE
An Arab city of the early medieval period from a "contemporary manuscript."
An Arab city of the early medieval period from a "contemporary manuscript."

"It was said that Baghdad alone had over one hundred booksellers in 891, and that at the height of its cultural glory it had some thirty public libraries" (Harris, History of Libraries in the Western World [1999] 79).

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