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واســـط في العصر المغولي : دراسة في احوالها العامة (656 - 736هـ) == Wasit in the Mongol era A study in its general conditions(736 - 656H)
Author name:
فضاء محمد عبيس الجبوري
Supervisor name:
محمد ضايع حسون
General topic:
History
Specific topic:
Islamic History
Degree:
Master
University:
University of Babylon - College Of Education For Human Sciences - Department Of History
Language:
Arabic
University location:
Babylon
First pages:
11T3318 - p.pdf
Abstract:
The city of Wasit was once a significant Arabic Muslim metropolis in the history of Iraq and it possesses clear contributions in Iraq's political, social, and ideological events throughout the Islamic eras primarily during the Abbasid era. As for the city's geographical location and the city's development both played a major role in acquiring such historical and cultural significance, as it supervised the management of a vast area including numerous villages and the hamlets which belong to them. Since the colonization of Wasit city and until the late Abbasid era several studies were approached about the ideological, political, and the social history of Wasit city , but we were not able to find a case study related to the city's general conditions in particular during the Mongol era. Which restricted the studies in focus on the ideological life where the other aspects of the city's life remained ambiguous , this might be a result due to the shortage of the city's relevant information in the references and for what the city's outskirts and their inhabitants suffered from the negligence policy and the vandalism adopted by the Mongol arbiters and their deputies throughout that time span. For this particular reason this study has been taken up in order to emphasize the city's political, administrative, ideological and social conditions during the Mongol occupation. Thus the superiority which the city enjoyed represents doubtlessly in itself the combined outcome of the political, social, ideological factors which the city witnessed throughout that period. Thus the city of Wasit declared its denial towards the Mongol occupation of Iraq and their invasion of Baghdad in year 1258 AD/ 656 H, and it uttered an actual resistance against the Mongol occupation regimes since the early days of the occupation, and there was an engagement between the inhabitants of Wasit and the Mongol forces led by the Mongol leader (Buqatimor) which the battle was described of having been fearsome and it resulted in the death of a considerable number of the city's inhabitants, although in making account of the violations such as killing, looting, and vandalism perpetrated by the Mongols owing to the policy they followed by governing the city affairs and looting its wealth, it remained in preservations of the political, administrative, economic and ideological supremacy. The political and the administrative status of Wasit during the Mongol (Ilkhanate) dominion were unstable, at times the city was linked to the city of Basrah as one administrative unit and other times it separates all according to the Mongol sultans and their goals and interests all over the country, despite that Wasit's inhabitants kept functioning actively in the political, administrative, and cultural events in spite of the measures applied by the Mongols and their deputies around the city in an effort to subordinate the people to their authority and this was illustrated by the orders given by the Mongol sultans of dispatching military campaigns to the city and its establishments where killing and looting were inevitable intentions unleashed upon the people. The researcher encountered a number of obstacles and some of them were referred to previously in relation to the shortage of the information and the scarcity of it particularly in which entails the general conditions in that era and especially the administrative and the social, therefore the research required an exhausting effort in collecting information and investigating it in addition to seeking numerous and various references in an effort to identify the role Wasit had politically and culturally throughout the Mongol era
