Some debate exists on whether ineptitude or treachery was behind Ibn al- Alkami's dismissal of warnings preceding this event and whether the mathematician Nasir al-Din al-Tusi provided advice for or participated in it.
Some debate exists on whether ineptitude or treachery was behind Ibn al- Alkami's dismissal of warnings preceding this event and whether the mathematician Nasir al-Din al-Tusi provided advice for or participated in it. According to contemporary accounts, the surrounding waters turned black with the ink of desecrated books, and an invasion of Azerbaijan and an alliance with Baibars, a Mamluk leader, were forged as part of an effort to avenge this event led by its instigator's brother, Berke. Rolled up in a carpet to prevent his royal blood from touching the ground, the caliph al-Mustasim was trampled to death by horses during this event, which saw the massacre of hundreds of thousands of city inhabitants and forced the Abbasids to relocate their capital to Cairo. FTP, Hulagu Khan led what 1258 rout of a city in present-day Iraq?
Some debate exists on whether ineptitude or treachery was behind Ibn al- Alkami's dismissal of warnings preceding this event and whether the mathematician Nasir al-Din al-Tusi provided advice for or participated in it.
{sack of Baghdad} (accept equivalents, as long it is mentioned that a sack or some sort of violent attack occurred in Baghdad)