Abbasid Samarra
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Samarra is a city in central Iraq, which served as the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate from 836 to 892. Founded by the caliph al-Mu'tasim, Samarra was briefly a major metropolis that stretched dozens
The spiral minaret of the Great Mosque of Samarra
Dirham of al-Muntasir minted in Surra Man Ra'a (Samarra) in 861–862
Great mosque of Samarra, built between 848 and 851 by the Abbasid caliph Al-Mutawakkil (largest mosque at the time)
Remains (partly reconstructed) of the Large Serdab or Birka Handasiyya, a sunken hall around a large circular pool, inside the Dār al-Khilāfa palace (around or after 836) built by Al-Mu῾tasim (r. 833–842)
Al-Muktafi
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Abū Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Ṭalḥa ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Muktafī bi'Llāh, better known by his regnal name al-Muktafī bi-Llāh, was the caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate from 902 to 908.
Gold dinar of al-Muktafi, minted at Baghdad in 904/5
The minaret of al-Muktafi's palace mosque in the early 20th century; the minaret probably dates to an 11th-century reconstruction, while the rest of the mosque was destroyed during the Mongol Sack of Baghdad in 1258