Death in Baghdad
· Baghdad, Iraq
Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · file Abu Nuwas died in Baghdad amid the Great Abbasid Civil War. Accounts of his cause and exact year of death differ, but Baghdad is consistently given as the place of death. The date is approximate. The article's prose notes evidence for death before al-Ma'mun's advance in 814–816 and reports disputed accounts of the cause and immediate setting.
