36 results for “mosque”
Clear filter...tside so that Muslims would not later claim the church as a mosque. He then visited and prayed at the ruins of Masjid al-Aqsa.
...ancient Babylon, Kufa was laid out in a grid with the great mosque at its centre. It rapidly became one of the most important ...
... of al-Mughira ibn Shu'ba, while leading the Fajr prayer in Masjid al-Nabawi. Abu Lu'lu'ah attacked with a double-bladed dagge...
... avenger for Nahrawan, while leading the Fajr prayer in the mosque of Kufa. Ibn Muljam had conspired with two others who simul...
...rusalem's Christian majority at the time. The Dome is not a mosque but a shrine housing the sacred rock. Politically, some cla...
...g as emir while recognizing no superior. He built the Great Mosque of Cordoba, one of the supreme architectural achievements o...
...fectly circular city with the caliph's palace and the great mosque at its center, Baghdad was conceived as the political, econ...
Al-Azhar mosque-university in Cairo was founded in 361 AH by the Fatimid dy...
...thir wrote that more than 70,000 were killed in the al-Aqsa mosque area alone. The city remained under Crusader control for 88...
...ross was removed from the Dome of the Rock, and the al-Aqsa mosque was cleansed and restored to worship after 88 years. Saladi...
...ity and converted the Hagia Sophia — then a church — into a mosque. His conquest ended the Byzantine Empire after over a mille...
... The Ottomans assumed the role of guardians of the Two Holy Mosques and the prestige of the caliphate.
...y Sepulchre, fearing future Muslims would convert it into a mosque.
...garrison. He founded Fustat (Old Cairo) and built the first mosque in Africa. Egypt became a major center of Islamic civilizat...
...ed by the Kharijite Ibn Muljam while praying Fajr in Kufa's mosque.
...e Abd ar-Rahman ibn Muljam while leading Fajr prayer at the mosque of Kufa. He died two days later. His assassination marked t...
The Al-Aqsa Mosque was built by the Umayyad caliphs on the southern end of the...
Caliph al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik completed the Great Mosque of Damascus, one of the largest and oldest mosques in the w...
The Great Mosque of Cordoba was expanded under Abd ar-Rahman I and his succe...
...ds generally tolerated Sunni scholarship and built al-Azhar mosque (later a Sunni institution). Their rule lasted until Salahu...
... administrative center. The Fatimids later founded al-Azhar mosque and university there, which became one of the greatest cent...
The Fatimid general Jawhar as-Siqilli founded al-Azhar mosque in Cairo, which evolved into one of the world's oldest univ...
Al-Azhar mosque in Cairo, founded by the Fatimids in 970 CE, began function...
The Great Mosque of Djenne in Mali, the largest mud-brick building in the wo...
...assumed the role of protector of the Haramain (the two holy mosques), a title of immense religious significance.
... patronage of the arts, and the construction of magnificent mosques by his architect Sinan.
... patronized the arts, and oversaw the construction of great mosques by the architect Mimar Sinan.
... over 300 structures including the Suleymaniye and Selimiye mosques.
... Arabia. The new state became the custodian of the two holy mosques in Mecca and Medina. The discovery of oil in 1938 transfor...
... began the first of several massive expansions of the Grand Mosque in Mecca and the Prophet's Mosque in Medina to accommodate ...
...d Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, capturing East Jerusalem and al-Masjid al-Aqsa. The loss of Jerusalem was a profound shock to the ...
Following the arson attack on al-Aqsa Mosque, Muslim leaders founded the Organization of Islamic Coopera...
Armed followers seized al-Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, declaring their companion as the Mahdi. ...
...ims worldwide, particularly regarding the status of al-Aqsa Mosque.
The Saudi government undertook massive expansions of Masjid al-Haram in Mecca and Masjid al-Nabawi in Medina. From acco...
...ne of the greatest centers of Islamic learning. The Sankore Mosque university attracted scholars worldwide. Mansa Musa's legen...