Investigating the Impact of Baghdad Environmental Structure on Illness and Mortality in the (First) Period of the Abbasid Caliphate

Baghdad has been one of the important cities of Islamic civilization built during Mansour Abbasid's time and has been the Abbasids' capital for several centuries. The city has had problems in environmental structure, which has played a significant role in spreading pathogens and mortality in the city. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between Baghdad's environmental structure and pathogens and its impact on mortality in this city.

The primary materials of this research are first-hand sources of Islamic history, which include historical sources, geographical books, and medical history texts. New research on the Abbasids' social situation has also been used in articles. Research method in this research. It is historical-analytical; Data collection is done by library method.

It seems that Baghdad's geographical location has not always been the cause of prosperity and growth of agriculture and prosperity, but the environmental structure of the city, such as weather conditions in the spread of pathogens and human casualties of residents of the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate.

In this article, we examine the impact of Baghdad's environmental structure in the first Abbasid period. First, the geographical importance of medicine has been stated; then, we have studied and analyzed the role of Baghdad's environmental structure in the spread of diseases and the factor that caused human casualties in the Abbasid period.