which city was a better capital for the arab caliphate, baghdad or damascus?
>>18131065Medina. Arabs should stay in their own lands.
>>18131065vgh, golden age baghdad.... vgh....
>>18131070Im not expert on Islam, but i think it was settled early on that the three Holy Cities cannot be capitals of ant temporal power
>>18131065London
>>18131065Pandemonium, where they are all going to meet "Gabriel".
>>18131065Berlin, Paris, or perhaps NYC.
>>18131459Baghdad or Cairo
>>18131070the middle east if not the world belongs to arabs and jews deal with it
>>18131459They aren't three. They are only two, Muslims didn't care much about Jerusalem. Also it's wasn't that "holy cities can't be seats of temporal power" but more of "whoever tried that got BTFO'd by the much stronger and more influential forces in Damascus or Baghdad or Cairo/Egypt
Damascus >>>>>>>The Umayyads did nothing wrong. Glory to Al-Rum
