Iraqi pilgrimage caravan and its importance in the Ottoman Empire

Abstract

Consistently Iraqis during the Islamic era to visit the holy places in the Hijaz year to perform the Hajj and is interested in some of the Abbasid caliphs convoys pilgrimage, in the year 160 AH / 776 AD exchange Caliph al-Mahdi in his argument thirty million dirhams, and carried with him a huge number of gowns to be distributed as gifts, and built houses beautiful at each station from Baghdad to Mecca and built many milestones along the way, and it was the first caliph, who carried the ice to cool fruit juice on the road.