Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, historically known in the west as Mesopotamia, is the country in West Asia bordered by Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iran, Kuwait, Jordan and Syria, with Baghdad as its capital. The source dates the rise of early cities between the Tigris and Euphrates to the sixth millennium BC, naming Sumer, Akkad, Babylonia and Assyria, and records that after the Arab conquest of the seventh century Iraq became the metropole of the Abbasid Caliphate with Baghdad a hub of the Islamic Golden Age. Schools, sects, sacred sites and texts are placed here when they arose in the modern country, beside the older Mesopotamia region of this atlas.
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Source Islamic Creeds: A SelectionW. Montgomery Watt
Source Mandaic language (Wikipedia)
Source The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd editionP. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C. E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel and W. P. Heinrichs (eds.)
Source The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates: The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh CenturyHugh Kennedy
Source Kitab al-Anwar wal-Maraqib (Book of Lights and Watchtowers)Ya'qub al-Qirqisani
Source Kitab-i-Iqan (Wikipedia)
Source An Introduction to the Baha'i FaithPeter Smith
Source The Sufi Orders in IslamJ. Spencer Trimingham
Source The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd editionP. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C. E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel and W. P. Heinrichs (eds.)
Source The Hidden Words (Wikipedia)
Source Wikipedia, "The Last Girl (memoir)"
Source The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd editionP. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C. E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel and W. P. Heinrichs (eds.)
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Source CIA World Factbook (public-domain archive): CIA World Factbook: Iraq
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Iraq (Wikipedia)
IntroductionQuote, Introduction
Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, historically known in the west as Mesopotamia, is a country in West Asia.
The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition
P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C. E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel and W. P. Heinrichs (eds.), Brill, 2005- Originated Here: Sunni, Stored origin-place property on this entity, cited to this source: The central Islamic lands: the Hijaz, Iraq, Syria and Khurasan
- Originated Here: Ismailism, Stored origin-place property on this entity, cited to this source: Iraq, and then North Africa and Egypt under the Fatimids
- Originated Here: Zaidiyyah, Stored origin-place property on this entity, cited to this source: Iraq, and established in the Yemeni highlands
View the Source The Sufi Orders in Islam
J. Spencer Trimingham, Oxford University Press, 1971Originated Here: Sufism, Stored origin-place property on this entity, cited to this source: Iraq and KhurasanView the Source The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates: The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh Century
Hugh Kennedy, Routledge, 2016Originated Here: Kharijites, Stored origin-place property on this entity, cited to this source: Kufa, IraqView the Source An Introduction to the Baha'i Faith
Peter Smith, Cambridge University Press, 2008Originated Here: Najibiyyih Garden (Garden of Ridvan), Baghdad, Stored country property on this entity, cited to this source: Iraq
Islamic Creeds: A Selection
W. Montgomery Watt, Edinburgh University Press, 1994Originated Here: Athari School, Stored origin-place property on this entity, cited to this source: Baghdad, IraqView the Source Kitab al-Anwar wal-Maraqib (Book of Lights and Watchtowers)
Ya'qub al-Qirqisani, 937Originated Here: Kitab al-Anwar wal-Maraqib (Book of Lights and Watchtowers), Stored origin-place property on this entity, cited to this source: Iraq (Baghdad region)
Wikipedia, "The Last Girl (memoir)"
WikipediaOriginated Here: The Last Girl, Stored origin-place property on this entity, cited to this source: IraqView the Source Kitab-i-Iqan (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationOriginated Here: Kitab-i-Iqan, Lead sectionQuote, Originated Here: Kitab-i-Iqan, Lead section
The work was composed in Baghdad over two days in January 1861, written partly in Persian and in Arabic.
The Hidden Words (Wikipedia)
Originated Here: The Hidden Words, Lead sectionQuote, Originated Here: The Hidden Words, Lead section
The Hidden Words (Kalimát-i-Maknúnih, Arabic: کلمات مكنونة, Persian: کلمات مکنونه) is a book written by Baháʼu'lláh, the founder of the Baháʼí Faith, around 1858. He composed it while walking along the banks of the Tigris river during his exile in Baghdad.
Mandaic language (Wikipedia)
Originated Here: Classical Mandaic, LeadQuote, Originated Here: Classical Mandaic, Lead
Mandaic, or more specifically Classical Mandaic, is the liturgical language of Mandaeism and a South Eastern Aramaic variety in use by the Mandaean community, traditionally based in southern parts of Iraq and southwest Iran, for their religious books.
CIA World Factbook (public-domain archive): CIA World Factbook: Iraq
CIA World Factbook (public-domain archive)Regions Where This Is Principal: Islam, ReligionsQuote, Regions Where This Is Principal: Islam, Religions
Religions.text: Muslim (official) 95-98% (Shia 61-64%, Sunni 29-34%), Christian 1% (includes Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, Assyrian Church of the East), other 1-4% (2015 est.)
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