Painterly reconstruction of a sunlit market street: stalls hung with patterned textiles and piled with folded cloth, baskets and pots line a stone-paved lane where people and a laden donkey walk under awnings, towards a gateway with a domed building, a minaret-like tower and palms beyond.

Baghdad · c. 800 CE

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Detail of the same illustrated bazaar: stacks of folded, patterned textiles, cloth-draped tables and woven baskets under a stall's timber posts.

Paper

In the Abbasid world, paper became part of a growing culture of writing. The scale and timing of particular uses in Baghdad around 800 need source review before publication.

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  • In the Abbasid world, paper became part of a growing culture of writing. — Scale and timing of particular uses in Baghdad around 800 need source review.
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