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{{Infobox military conflict
|partof=the [[Mongol invasions]]
|image=[[File:Bagdad1258.jpg|300px]]
|caption=Hulagu's army besieging the walls of Baghdad
|date= 29 January – 10 February 1258 (13 days)
|place=[[Baghdad]], modern-day [[Iraq]]
|result=Decisive Mongol victory
|combatant1= [[File:Flag of the Mongol Empire.svg|border|23px]] [[Mongol Empire]]
* [[File:Il-Khanate_Flag.svg|border|23px]] [[Ilkhanate]]
* [[Yuan Dynasty]]
::[[File:Rubenid Flag.svg|border|22px]] [[Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia]]
::{{flagicon|Georgia}} [[Kingdom of Georgia]]
::[[File:Armoiries Bohémond VI d'Antioche.svg|border|22px]] [[Principality of Antioch]]
::[[Greater Persia|Persia]]
|combatant2=[[File:Black flag.svg|border|23px]] [[Abbasid Caliphate]]
* [[File:Flag of Ayyubid Dynasty.svg|border|23px]] [[Ayyubid dynasty]]
||commander1=[[File:Flag of the Mongol Empire.svg|border|23px]] [[Hulagu Khan]] [[File:Flag of the Mongol Empire.svg|border|23px]] [[Arghun Aqa]] [[File:Flag of the Mongol Empire.svg|border|23px]] [[Baiju]] [[File:Flag of the Mongol Empire.svg|border|23px]] [[Buqa-Temür]] [[File:Flag of the Mongol Empire.svg|border|23px]] [[Sunitai]] [[File:Flag of the Mongol Empire.svg|border|23px]] [[Kitbuqa]] [[File:Flag of the Mongol Empire.svg|border|23px]] [[Guo Kan]] [[File:Flag of the Mongol Empire.svg|border|23px]] [[Koke Ilge]]<ref>John Masson Smith, Jr. ''Mongol Manpower and Persian Population'', pp.276</ref>
|commander2=[[File:Black flag.svg|border|22px]] [[Al-Musta'sim]]{{executed}} [[File:Black flag.svg|border|22px]] [[Mujaheduddin]] [[File:Black flag.svg|border|22px]] [[Sulaiman Shah]]{{executed}} [[File:Black flag.svg|border|22px]] [[Qarasunqur]] [[File:Flag of Ayyubid Dynasty.svg|border|23px]] [[Al-Ashraf Musa, Sultan of Egypt|Al-Ashraf Musa]]
|units1=40,000+ Mongol,Manchurian,Han and Kazakh cavalry<ref>John Masson Smith, Jr. - Mongol Manpower and Persian Population, pp.271-299</ref> 12,000 Armenian [[cavalry]]<ref name=Venegoni/> 40,000 Armenian [[infantry]]<ref name=Venegoni/> Georgian [[infantry]] 1,000 [[Chinese people|Chinese]] [[artillery|bombardiers]] and engineers [[Chinese people|Chinese]], [[Turkic people|Turkic]], [[Greater Persia|Persian]] [[infantry]]
|units2=Cavalry Infantry
|strength1=120,000<ref name=Venegoni>L. Venegoni (2003). [http://www.transoxiana.org/Eran/Articles/venegoni.html Hülägü's Campaign in the West - (1256-1260)], ''Transoxiana Webfestschrift Series I'', Webfestschrift Marshak 2003.</ref>–150,000<ref name=Geographic>''[[National Geographic (magazine)|National Geographic]]'', v. 191 (1997)</ref>
|strength2=50,000
|casualties1=Unknown but believed to be minimal
|casualties2=50,000 soldiers, 200,000–800,000 civilians (Western sources)<ref>Andre Wink, ''Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World'', Vol.2, (Brill, 2002), 13. {{Subscription required |via=[[Questia]]}}</ref> 2,000,000 civilians (Arab sources)<ref>''The different aspects of Islamic culture: Science and technology in Islam'', Vol.4, Ed. A. Y. Al-Hassan, (Dergham sarl, 2001), 655.</ref>
}}
{{Campaignbox Mongol invasions}}

The '''Siege of Baghdad''', which lasted from January 29 until February 10, 1258, entailed the [[investment (military)|investment]], capture, and sack of [[Baghdad]], the capital of the [[Abbasid Caliphate]], by [[Ilkhanate]] [[Mongol Empire|Mongol]] forces and allied troops. The Mongols were under the command of [[Hulagu Khan]] (or Hulegu Khan), brother of the [[khagan]] [[Möngke Khan]], who had intended to further extend his rule into [[Mesopotamia]] but not to directly overthrow the Caliphate. Möngke, however, had instructed Hulagu to attack Baghdad if the Caliph [[Al-Musta'sim]] refused Mongol demands for his continued submission to the khagan and the payment of tribute in the form of military support for Mongol forces in [[Iran]].

Hulagu began his campaign in Iran with several offensives against [[Nizari]] groups, including the [[Assassins]], who lost their stronghold of [[Alamut Castle|Alamut]]. He then marched on Baghdad, demanding that Al-Musta'sim accede to the terms imposed by Möngke on the Abbasids. Although the Abbasids had failed to prepare for the invasion, the Caliph believed that Baghdad could not fall to invading forces and refused to surrender. Hulagu subsequently besieged the city, which surrendered after 12 days. During the next week, the Mongols sacked Baghdad, committing numerous atrocities and destroyed the Abbasids' vast libraries, including the [[House of Wisdom]]. The Mongols executed Al-Musta'sim and massacred many residents of the city, which was left greatly depopulated. The siege is considered to mark the end of the [[Islamic Golden Age]], during which the [[Islamic Caliphate|caliphs]] had extended their rule from the [[Iberian Peninsula]] to [[Sindh]], and which was also marked by many cultural achievements.<ref>Matthew E. Falagas, Effie A. Zarkadoulia, George Samonis (2006). "Arab science in the golden age (750–1258 C.E.) and today", ''[[Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology|The FASEB Journal]]'' '''20''', pp. 1581–1586.</ref>

==Background==
Baghdad had for centuries been the capital of the [[Abbasid Caliphate]], the third [[Islamic Caliphate|caliphate]] whose rulers were descendants of [[‘Abbas ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib|Abbas]], an uncle of [[Muhammad]]. In 751, the Abbasids overthrew the [[Umayyads]] and moved the Caliph's seat from [[Damascus]] to Baghdad. At the city's peak, it was populated by approximately one million people and was defended by an army of 60,000 soldiers. By the middle of the 13th century, however, the power of the Abbasids had declined and Turkic and [[Mamluk]] warlords often held power over the Caliphs. Baghdad still retained much symbolic significance, however, and it remained a rich and cultured city. The Caliphs of the 12th and 13th centuries had begun to develop links with the expanding [[Mongol Empire]] in the east. Caliph [[Al-Nasir|an-Nasir li-dini'llah]], who reigned from 1180–1225, may have attempted an alliance with [[Genghis Khan]] when [[Muhammad II of Khwarezm]] threatened to attack the Abbasids.<ref>Jack Weatherford ''Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world'', p.135</ref> It has been rumored that some [[Medieval Crusades|Crusader]] captives were sent as tribute to the Mongol khagan.<ref>Jack Weatherford '' Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world'', p.136</ref>

According to ''[[The Secret History of the Mongols]]'', Genghis and his successor, [[Ögedei Khan]], ordered their general [[Chormaqan]] to attack Baghdad.<ref>Sh.Gaadamba ''Mongoliin nuuts tovchoo (1990)'', p.233</ref> In 1236, Chormaqan led a division of the Mongol army to [[Irbil]],<ref>Timothy May ''Chormaqan Noyan'', p.62</ref> which remained under Abbasid rule. Further raids on Irbil and other regions of the caliphate became nearly annual occurrences.<ref>Al-Sa'idi,., op. cit., pp. 83, 84, from Ibn al-Fuwati</ref> Some raids were alleged to have reached Baghdad itself,<ref name="Mongol Empire p.2">C. P. Atwood ''Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol Empire'', p.2</ref> but these Mongol incursions were not always successful, with Abbasid forces defeating the invaders in 1238<ref>Spuler, op. cit., from Ibn al-'Athir, vol. 12, p. 272.</ref> and 1245.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.alhassanain.com/english/book/book/history_library/various_books/the_alleged_role_of_nasir_al_din_al_tusi_in_the_fall_of_baghdad/004.html|title=Mongol Plans for Expansion and Sack of Baghdad|work=alhassanain.com}}</ref>

Despite their successes, the Abbasids hoped to come to terms with the Mongols and by 1241 had adopted the practice of sending an annual tribute to the court of the khagan.<ref name="Mongol Empire p.2"/> Envoys from the Caliph were present at the coronation of [[Güyük Khan]] as khagan in 1246<ref>Giovanni, da Pian del Carpine (translated by Erik Hildinger) ''The story of the Mongols whom we call the Tartars (1996)'', p. 108</ref> and that of [[Möngke Khan]] in 1251.<ref>http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/lectures/wulec3.html</ref> During his brief reign, Güyük insisted that the Caliph [[Al-Musta'sim]] fully submit to Mongol rule and come personally to [[Karakorum]]. Blame for the Caliph's refusal and for other resistance offered by the Abbasids to increased attempts by the Mongols to extend their power was placed by the khagans on Chormaqan's lieutenant and successor, [[Baiju]].

==Hulagu's expedition==

===Planning===
In 1257, Möngke resolved to establish firm authority over Mesopotamia, Syria, and Iran. The khagan gave his brother, [[Hulagu]], authority over a subordinate khanate and army, the [[Ilkhanate]], and instructions to compel the submission of various Muslim states, including the caliphate. Though not seeking the overthrow of Al-Musta'sim, Möngke ordered Hulagu to destroy Baghdad if the Caliph refused his demands of personal submission to Hulagu and the payment of tribute in the form of a military detachment, which would reinforce Hulagu's army during its campaigns against Iranian [[Ismaili]] states.

In preparation for his invasion, Hulagu raised a large expeditionary force, conscripting one out of every ten military-age males in the entirety of the [[Mongol Empire]], assembling what may have been the most numerous Mongol army to have existed and, by one estimate, 150,000 strong.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.telusplanet.net/dgarneau/euro54.htm|title=European & Asian History|work=telusplanet.net}}</ref> Generals of the army included the Oirat administrator [[Arghun Agha]], [[Baiju]], [[Buqa Temür]], [[Guo Kan]], and Kitbuqa, as well as Hulagu's brother [[Sunitai]] and various other warlords.<ref>Rashiddudin, ''Histoire des Mongols de la Perse'', E. Quatrieme ed. and trans. (Paris, 1836), p. 352.</ref> The force was also supplemented by Christian forces, including the King of [[Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia|Armenia]] and his army, a Frankish contingent from the [[Principality of Antioch]],<ref>Demurger, 80-81; Demurger 284</ref> and a [[Kingdom of Georgia|Georgian]] force, seeking revenge on the Muslim Abbasids for the sacking of their capital, [[Tiflis]], decades earlier by the [[Khwarazm-Shah]]s.<ref>Khanbaghi, 60</ref> About 1,000 Chinese artillery experts accompanied the army,<ref>{{cite book |url={{Google books |plainurl=yes |id=BZf_L1V7NLUC |page=173 }} |title=A Short History of the Chinese People
|authorlink=Luther Carrington Goodrich|author=L. Carrington Goodrich|accessdate=2011-11-28 |edition=illustrated |series= |volume= |date= |year=2002 |month= |publisher=Courier Dover Publications |location= |language= |isbn=0-486-42488-X |page=173 |pages= |quote=In the campaigns waged in western Asia (1253-1258) by Jenghis' grandson Hulagu, "a thousand engineers from China had to get themselves ready to serve the catapults, and to be able to cast inflammable substances." One of Hulagu's principal generals in his successful attack against the caliphate of Baghdad was Chinese.}}</ref> as did [[Persia]]n and [[Turkic peoples|Turkic]] auxiliaries, according to [[Ata-Malik Juvayni]], a contemporary Persian observer.

===Early campaigns===
Hulagu led his army first to Iran, where he successfully campaigned against the [[Lurs]], the [[Bukhara]], and the remnants of the [[Khwarezm-Shah]] dynasty. After subduing them, Hulagu directed his attention toward the [[Ismaili]] [[Assassins]] and their Grand Master, Imam 'Ala al-Din Muhammad, who had attempted the murder of both Möngke and Hulagu's friend and subordinate, [[Kitbuqa]]. Though Assassins failed in both attempts, Hulagu marched his army to their stronghold of [[Alamut Castle|Alamut]], which he captured. The Mongols later executed the Assassins' Grand Master, Imam Rukn al-Dun Khurshah, who had briefly succeeded 'Ala al-Din Muhammad from 1255-1256.

==Capture of Baghdad==

===Hulagu's march to Baghdad===
After defeating the Assassins, Hulagu sent word to Al-Musta'sim, demanding his acquiescence to the terms imposed by Möngke. Al-Musta'sim refused, in large part due to the influence of his advisor and grand vizier, Ibn al-Alkami. Historians have ascribed various motives to al-Alkami's opposition to submission, including treachery<ref name=Zaydan>{{cite book|last=Zaydān|first=Jirjī|title=History of Islamic Civilization, Vol. 4|year=1907|publisher=Stephen Austin and Sons, Ltd.|location=Hertford|pages=292|url={{Google books |plainurl=yes |id=DRByAAAAMAAJ |page=292 }} |accessdate=16 September 2012}}</ref> and incompetence,<ref name=Davis>{{cite book|last=Davis|first=Paul K.|title=Besieged: 100 Great Sieges from Jericho to Sarajevo|year=2001|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York|pages=67}}</ref> and it appears that he lied to the Caliph about the severity of the invasion, assuring Al-Musta'sim that, if the capital of the caliphate was endangered by a Mongol army, the Islamic world would rush to its aid.<ref name="Davis"/>

Although he replied to Hulagu's demands in a manner that the Mongol commander found menacing and offensive enough to break off further negotiation,<ref>Nicolle</ref> Al-Musta'sim neglected to summon armies to reinforce the troops at his disposal in Baghdad. Nor did he strengthen the city's walls. By January 11 the Mongols were close to the city,<ref name="Davis"/> establishing themselves on both banks of the [[Tigris River]] so as to form a pincer around the city. Al-Musta'sim finally decided to do battle with them and sent out a force of 20,000 cavalry to attack the Mongols. The cavalry were decisively defeated by the Mongols, whose sappers breached dikes along the Tigris River and flooded the ground behind the Abbasid forces, trapping them.<ref name="Davis"/>

===Siege of the city===
[[File:Persian painting of Hülegü’s army attacking city with siege engine.jpg|thumb|Persian painting (14th century) of Hülegü's army besieging a city. Note use of the siege engine]]

On January 29, the Mongol army began its siege of Baghdad, constructing a palisade and a ditch around the city. Employing siege engines and catapults, the Mongols attempted to breach the city's walls, and, by February 5, had seized a significant portion of the defenses. Realizing that his forces had little chance of retaking the walls, Al-Musta'sim attempted to open negotiations with Hulagu, who rebuffed the Caliph. Around 3,000 of Baghdad's notables also tried to negotiate with Hulagu but were murdered.<ref>{{cite book|last=Fattah|first=Hala|title=A Brief History of Iraq|publisher=Checkmark Books|page=101}}</ref> Five days later, on February 10, the city surrendered, but the Mongols did not enter the city until the 13th, beginning a week of massacre and destruction.

==Destruction==
[[File:HulaguInBagdad.JPG|thumb|[[Hulagu]] (left) imprisons Caliph [[Al-Musta'sim]] among his treasures to starve him to death. Medieval depiction from ''Le livre des merveilles'', 15th century]]
Many historical accounts detailed the cruelties of the Mongol conquerors.

* The [[House of Wisdom|Grand Library of Baghdad]], containing countless precious historical documents and books on subjects ranging from medicine to astronomy, was destroyed. Survivors said that the waters of the [[Tigris]] ran black with ink from the enormous quantities of books flung into the river and red from the blood of the scientists and philosophers killed.{{citation needed|date=October 2015}}
* Citizens attempted to flee, but were intercepted by Mongol soldiers who killed in abundance, sparing neither women nor children. Martin Sicker writes that close to 90,000 people may have died.<ref>(Sicker 2000, p. 111)</ref> Other estimates go much higher. [[Wassaf]] claims the loss of life was several hundred thousand. Ian Frazier of ''[[The New Yorker]]'' says estimates of the death toll have ranged from 200,000 to a million.<ref>{{cite news |first=Ian |last=Frazier |url=http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/04/25/050425fa_fact4 |title=Annals of history: Invaders: Destroying Baghdad |work=[[The New Yorker]] |date=25 April 2005 |page=4 }}</ref>
* The Mongols looted and then destroyed mosques, palaces, libraries, and hospitals. Grand buildings that had been the work of generations were burned to the ground.
* The caliph Al-Musta'sim was captured and forced to watch as his citizens were murdered and his treasury plundered. According to most accounts, the caliph was killed by trampling. The Mongols rolled the caliph up in a rug, and rode their horses over him, as they believed that the earth would be offended if it were touched by royal blood. But the Venetian traveller [[Marco Polo]] claimed that Al-Musta'sim was locked in a tower with nothing to eat but gold and “died like a dog”.<ref>[http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/16/in-threatening-baghdad-militants-seek-to-undo-800-years-of-history.html "In Threatening Baghdad, Militants Seek to Undo 800 Years of History"]</ref>
*All but one of Al-Musta'sim's sons were killed, and the sole surviving son was sent to Mongolia, where Mongolian historians report he married and fathered children, but played no role in Islam thereafter (see [[Abbasid Caliphate#Mongol invasion (1206–1258)|The end of the Abbasid dynasty]]).
* Hulagu had to move his camp upwind of the city, due to the stench of decay from the ruined city.

Baghdad was a depopulated, ruined city for several centuries and only gradually recovered some of its former glory.

===Comments on the destruction===
:"Iraq in 1258 was very different from present day Iraq. Its agriculture was supported by canal networks thousands of years old. Baghdad was one of the most brilliant intellectual centers in the world. The Mongol destruction of Baghdad was a psychological blow from which Islam never recovered. With the sack of Baghdad, the intellectual flowering of Islam was snuffed out. Imagining the Athens of Pericles and Aristotle obliterated by a nuclear weapon begins to suggest the enormity of the blow. The Mongols filled in the irrigation canals and left Iraq too depopulated to restore them." <ref>[http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/WestTech/xmongol.htm ''The Mongols''] Steven Dutch</ref>

:"They swept through the city like hungry falcons attacking a flight of doves, or like raging wolves attacking sheep, with loose reins and shameless faces, murdering and spreading terror...beds and cushions made of gold and encrusted with jewels were cut to pieces with knives and torn to shreds. Those hiding behind the veils of the great Harem were dragged...through the streets and alleys, each of them becoming a plaything...as the population died at the hands of the invaders." (Abdullah Wassaf as cited by [[David Morgan (historian)|David Morgan]])

===Causes for agricultural decline===
Some{{who|date=November 2016}} historians believe that the Mongol invasion destroyed much of the irrigation infrastructure that had sustained [[Mesopotamia]] for many millennia. Canals were cut as a military tactic and never repaired. So many people died or fled that neither the labor nor the organization were sufficient to maintain the canal system. It broke down or silted up. This theory was advanced by historian [[Svat Soucek|Svatopluk Souček]] in his 2000 book, ''A History of Inner Asia.''

Other historians point to [[soil salination]] as the culprit in the decline in agriculture.<ref>[http://home.alltel.net/bsundquist1/ir5.html Alltel.net]</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/198305/the.greening.of.the.arab.east-the.planters.htm|title=Saudi Aramco World : The Greening of the Arab East: The Planters|work=saudiaramcoworld.com}}</ref>

==Aftermath==
Hulagu left 3,000 Mongol soldiers behind to rebuild Baghdad. [[Ata-Malik Juvayni]] was appointed governor of Baghdad, Lower [[Mesopotamia]], and [[Khuzistan]]. The Mongol Hulagu's [[Nestorian Christian]] wife, [[Dokuz Khatun]] successfully interceded to spare the lives of Baghdad's Christian inhabitants.<ref>Maalouf, 243</ref><ref>Runciman, 306</ref> Hulagu offered the royal palace to the Nestorian [[Catholicos]] [[Mar Makikha]], and ordered a cathedral to be built for him.<ref>Foltz, 123</ref>

Initially, the fall of Baghdad came as a shock to the whole Muslim world, but the city became an economic center where international trade, the minting of coins and religious affairs flourished under the Ilkhans.<ref>{{cite book |first=Richard |last=Coke |title=Baghdad, the City of Peace |location=London |publisher=T. Butterworth |year=1927 |isbn= |page=169 }}</ref> The chief Mongol [[darughachi]] was thereafter stationed in the city.<ref>{{cite book |first=Judith G. |last=Kolbas |title=The Mongols in Iran: Chingiz Khan to Uljaytu, 1220–1309 |location=London |publisher=Routledge |year=2006 |page=156 |isbn=0-7007-0667-4 }}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Seljuk siege of Baghdad 1157]]
* [[Abbasid Caliphate]]
* [[History of Baghdad]]
* [[Islamic Golden Age]]
* [[Soil salination]]
* [[Tigris–Euphrates river system]]
* [[Möngke Khan]]
* [[Mongol Empire]]

==Notes==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==References==
* Amitai-Preiss, Reuven. 1998. ''Mongols and Mamluks: The Mamluk-Ilkhanid War, 1260–1281'' (first edition). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-46226-6.
* [[Alain Demurger|Demurger, Alain]]. 2005. ''Les Templiers. Une chevalerie chrétienne au Moyen Âge''. Éditions du Seuil.
* ''ibid.'' 2006. ''Croisades et Croisés au Moyen-Age''. Paris: Groupe Flammarion.
* Khanbaghi, Aptin. 2006. ''The fire, the star, and the cross: minority religions in medieval and early modern Iran''. London: I. B. Tauris.
* Morgan, David. 1990. ''The Mongols''. Boston: Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-17563-6.
* [[David Nicolle|Nicolle, David]], and Richard Hook (illustrator). 1998. ''The Mongol Warlords: Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, Hulegu, Tamerlane''. London: Brockhampton Press. ISBN 1-86019-407-9.
* Runciman, Steven. ''A history of the Crusades''.
* Saunders, J.J. 2001. ''The History of the Mongol Conquests''. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0-8122-1766-7.
* Sicker, Martin. 2000. ''The Islamic World in Ascendancy: From the Arab Conquests to the Siege of Vienna''. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger. ISBN 0-275-96892-8.
* Souček, Svat. 2000. ''A History of Inner Asia''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-65704-0.

==External links==
* [http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/04/25/050425fa_fact4 article describing Hulagu's conquest of Baghdad], written by [[Ian Frazier]], appeared in the April 25, 2005 issue of ''[[The New Yorker]]''.

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