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The Blacksmiths’ Market of Mosul: A Craft in Continuity
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The Blacksmiths’ Market of Mosul: A Craft in Continuity

Fourteen Centuries of Metalwork in a Living Urban Heritage Site

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Ewer. Inscription. Made of engraved and silver, copper inlaid brass.
The Blacas Ewer Shuja’ ibn Mana al-Mawsili. 1232 Mosul

In the heart of Mosul's Old City, on the western bank of the Tigris River, sits one of Iraq's oldest functioning marketplaces: Sūq al-Ḥaddādīn, the Blacksmiths' Market. Though modest, the market embodies one of the city's longest unbroken artisanal traditions, linking past and present through the per…

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