Water in an Abbasid City: The Sources, Distribution, and Significance of Water at Samarra
This paper approaches the city of Samarra through one of its most fundamental attributes — the water supply. In seeking to understand how water was transported to, and distributed throughout, the vast metropolitan area, as well as the significance of the various pieces of hydraulic infrastructure re...
| Subtitles: | Managing and Understanding Water in the Abbasid Caliphate |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
Journal of Abbasid Studies
Year: 2025, Volume: 12, Issue: 1, Pages: 36-60 |
| Further subjects: | B
hydraulic infrastructure
B urban population B Samarra B Abbasid elite B water supply B water carriers |
| Online Access: |
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| Summary: | This paper approaches the city of Samarra through one of its most fundamental attributes — the water supply. In seeking to understand how water was transported to, and distributed throughout, the vast metropolitan area, as well as the significance of the various pieces of hydraulic infrastructure required for this task, new light is shed on the occupation of the short-lived Abbasid caliphal capital, the priorities of its rulers, and the lives of its inhabitants. |
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| ISSN: | 2214-2371 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Abbasid Studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22142371-00802031 |
