place
Baghdad
also: بغداد
Capital of the Abbasid caliphate, the metropolis of the western Islamic world; paired with Balkh in §53 as the two ends of the earth that death makes equal.
Reading notes
- The Rubaiyat §53 Baghdad
Baghdad, the Abbasid capital — the metropolis of the age, paired with Balkh as 'anywhere at all' once the measure of a life is full.