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Monday, May 13, 2024
Great Mosque of Samarra
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During the reign of the Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil (822 - 861), he commissioned several building projects. Up to 20 palaces are listed ...
Friday, April 26, 2024
The Astronomer Sultan
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The Rasulids were a Sunni Muslim dynasty that ruled what is now Yemen and the Red Sea Coast of the Arabia peninsula from the early 13th cent...
Thursday, April 25, 2024
The qibla
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I mentioned yesterday that Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur had an interest in building and re-building mosques. One was the Kutubiyya Mosque, the...
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