The Books Beneath the River: Remembering Baghdad’s Loss
The Books Beneath the River: Remembering Baghdad’s Loss Welcome to The Lost Epoch. They say the Tigris ran black with ink when Baghdad fell. We cannot verify the river’s color. We can follow the copyists, teachers, households, and collections that made its learning possible—and face what the siege took from them. Baghdad fell when a caliphate whose prestige far exceeded its military power confronted a Mongol army skilled at turning political isolation, encirclement, and siege engineering into surrender. The destruction was catastrophic for the city and its inhabitants, but the image of a…
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