The Ottoman Empire's 1638 Baghdad Campaign: Murad IV's Last Conquest

In 1638, Sultan Murad IV marched east to recapture Baghdad from the Safavids — a campaign that would be the last great Ottoman conquest. This episode retraces the siege itself: the engineering, the brutal street fighting, and the controversial massacre that followed. We look at Murad IV himself — the warrior-sultan who banned coffee and tobacco, executed his own grand vizier, and died young from drink. What made a sultan personally lead his army into battle in the 17th century? And how did the 1639 Treaty of Zuhab finally fix a border that still shapes Iraq and Iran today? Lucas and Luna explore the human and strategic dimensions of a forgotten war that redrew the map of the Middle East. #MuradIV #Baghdad1638 #OttomanSafavidWar #TreatyOfZuhab #SiegeOfBaghdad #Iraq #Iran #SafavidEmpire #17thCentury #OttomanEmpire #FexingoHistory #History #MiddleEastHistory #MilitaryHistory #Janissary #Sipahi #Baghdad #KuyucuMuradPasha Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo