Siege of Baghdad (1401) explained

In 1401, Timur besieged Baghdad for forty days and then massacred its inhabitants for resisting.^[1] The Mongol army looted the treasury and razed much of the city, except for mosques and madrasas.^[2] Contemporaries reported that each Mongol soldier was ordered to bring at least one severed head of an inhabitant. Only one out of a hundred of the city's inhabitants reportedly survived the massacre to be sold into slavery.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Book: Shterenshis . Michael . Tamerlane and the Jews . 2013 . Routledge . 978-1-136-87366-9 . 65–66 . en.
2. Book: The Diez Albums: Contexts and Contents . 14 November 2016 . BRILL . 978-90-04-32348-3 . 490 . en.
3. Book: Yehuda . Zvi . The New Babylonian Diaspora: The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Community in Iraq, 16th-20th Centuries C.E. . 2017 . BRILL . 978-90-04-35401-2 . 33 . en.