Waste and Dirt Filtering in the Abbasid Era in Iraq

The study aims to demonstrate the importance of cleanliness in the Islamic religion, and to investigate the influence that the teachings of Islamic law had on the rulers during the establishment of new cities in the Abbasid era, which extended from (132 - 656) and the standards that the Abbasid caliphs relied on in establishing their cities, especially the cities of (Baghdad and Samarra, considering that they were the capitals of the Abbasid Caliphate during the different eras of the state, and to examine the Abbasid policy for cities, and their interest in the issue of cleanliness in cities and study the most important tools and methods used by the Abbasids to dispose of waste. The researcher reached a number of results, the most prominent of which were: The Abbasid caliphs showed great care for public cleanliness, so they established bathrooms in the cities they built, and the function of public bathrooms was linked to the call of Islam and its urging on cleanliness and purity, and they dug canals and canals from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The process of treating and filtering waste limited the spread of diseases in the Abbasid era, due to the reduction of the spread of insects and rodents. Also, digging wells for sewage and avoiding diverting their course to large rivers helped improve the water that was being transported. From rivers to cities through canals, in addition to digging sewage wells away from drinking wells.