Baghdad, known as The City of Peace by Arabs, became Iraq's capital in the early 1920s and has a population of around five million people. The Tigris River roughly bisects the vast city ...

Narrator: In 762, the city of Baghdad was established by Al-Mansur. The centre was a perfect circle. The round city. By 814, Baghdad was the world's largest city with over one million inhabitants.

While today Saudi Arabia holds undeniable influence in the Muslim world, Baghdad was the city that truly had the potential to lead Islam into a new era of global supremacy. However, history ...