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The Taj Palace (Arabic: قصر التاج, romanized: Qaṣr al-Tāj, lit. 'Palace of the Crown') was one of the principal caliphal palaces in Baghdad of the Abbasid Caliphate. The palace was begun by the sixteenth Abbasid caliph, al-Mu'tadid (r. 892–902), as part of the building projects begun when the capita
l of the Caliphate was moved back to Baghdad from Samarra. It lay on the banks of the Tigris River in southern East Baghdad, just south of the older Hasani Palace. It was thus the southernmost portion of a sprawling palace complex, the "Abode of the Caliphate" (Dār al-Khilāfat), that included the Hasani and the Firdus Palace, also built by al-Mu'tadid, as well as gardens and minor palaces. However, in 899 al-Mu'tadid ordered construction stopped, because its location made it likely that the smoke from the hearths of the nearby residential districts would waft over to the palace. In the end, it was his son and successor, al-Muktafi (r. 902–908), who completed construction of the Taj. For this purpose he demolished an earlier palace, the "Palace of Perfection" (Qaṣr al-Kāmil), but also plundered the ancient palace of the Sasanian rulers in Ctesiphon for building material: the bricks of its...
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