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Great Mosque of Kairouan

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The Great Mosque of Kairouan (جامع القيروان الأكبر), also known as the Mosque of Uqba (جامع عقبة بن نافع), is a mosque situated in the UNESCO World Heritage town of Kairouan, Tunisia and is one of the largest Islamic monuments in North Africa. [1]

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  1. 169 relations: Abbasid Caliphate, Abu Ibrahim Ahmad ibn Muhammad, Aghlabid architecture, Aghlabid dynasty, Al-Andalus, Al-Bakri, Al-Husayn I ibn Ali, Al-Maqdisi, Al-Mu'izz ibn Badis, Al-Nuwayri, Ancient Carthage, Ancient Roman architecture, Arch, Archaeology, Arrowslit, Asad ibn al-Furat, Astronomy, Āyah, Baghdad, Banu Hilal, Barrel vault, Bay (architecture), Beam (structure), Berbers, Bishr ibn Safwan al-Kalbi, Blind arcade, Blue Quran, Botany, Bracket (architecture), Brick, Bronze, Buttress, Byzantine architecture, Caliphate, Calligraphy, Capital (architecture), Carthage, Chandelier, Chemtou, Cistern, Column, Composite order, Conifer cone, Corinthian order, Cupola, Damascus, Dodecagon, Dome of the Rock, Egypt, Eid al-Fitr, ... Expand index (119 more) »

  2. 670 establishments
  3. 703 establishments
  4. 7th-century establishments in Africa
  5. 7th-century establishments in the Umayyad Caliphate
  6. 7th-century mosques
  7. 8th-century mosques
  8. Aghlabid architecture
  9. Arcades (architecture)
  10. Kairouan
  11. Mosques in Tunisia
  12. Religious buildings and structures completed in the 670s
  13. Religious buildings and structures completed in the 700s

Abbasid Caliphate

The Abbasid Caliphate or Abbasid Empire (translit) was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

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Abu Ibrahim Ahmad ibn Muhammad

Abu Ibrahim Ahmad ibn Muhammad was the sixth Aghlabid emir of Ifriqiya, ruling from 856 to his death on 28 December 863.

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Aghlabid architecture

Aghlabid architecture dates to the rule of the Aghlabid dynasty in Ifriqiya (modern-day Tunisia) during the 9th century and the beginning of the 10th century.

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Aghlabid dynasty

The Aghlabid dynasty (الأغالبة) was an Arab dynasty centered in Ifriqiya from 800 to 909 that conquered parts of Sicily, Southern Italy, and possibly Sardinia, nominally as vassals of the Abbasid Caliphate.

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Al-Andalus

Al-Andalus was the Muslim-ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula.

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Al-Bakri

Abū ʿUbayd ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb ibn ʿAmr al-Bakrī (أبو عبيد عبد الله بن عبد العزيز بن محمد بن أيوب بن عمرو البكري), or simply al-Bakrī (c. 1040–1094) was an Arab Andalusian historian and a geographer of the Muslim West.

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Al-Husayn I ibn Ali

Al-Husayn I ibn Ali, also known as Hussein I (حسين الأول; born in 1675 – 13 September 1740) was the founder of the Husainid Dynasty, which ruled Tunisia until the abolition of the monarchy in 1957.

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Al-Maqdisi

Shams al-Din Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Abi Bakr (translit; 991), commonly known by the nisba al-Maqdisi (translit) or al-Muqaddasī (ٱلْمُقَدَّسِي) was a medieval Palestinian Arab geographer, author of Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm (The Best Divisions in the Knowledge of the Regions), as well as author of the book, Description of Syria (Including Palestine).

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Al-Mu'izz ibn Badis

Al-Muʿizz ibn Bādīs (1008–1062) was the fourth ruler of the Zirids in Ifriqiya, reigning from 1016 to 1062.

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Al-Nuwayri

Al-Nuwayrī, full name Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad bin ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Nuwayrī (شهاب الدين أحمد بن عبد الوهاب النويري, 5 April 1279 – 5 June 1333) was an Egyptian Muslim historian and civil servant of the Bahri Mamluk dynasty.

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Ancient Carthage

Ancient Carthage (𐤒𐤓𐤕𐤟𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕) was an ancient Semitic civilisation based in North Africa.

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Ancient Roman architecture

Ancient Roman architecture adopted the external language of classical ancient Greek architecture for the purposes of the ancient Romans, but was different from Greek buildings, becoming a new architectural style.

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Arch

An arch is a curved vertical structure spanning an open space underneath it.

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Archaeology

Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Arrowslit

An arrowslit (often also referred to as an arrow loop, loophole or loop hole, and sometimes a balistraria) is a narrow vertical aperture in a fortification through which an archer can launch arrows or a crossbowman can launch bolts.

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Asad ibn al-Furat

Asad Ibn Al-Furat (أسد بن الفرات; c.759 – c.828) was a Muslim jurist and theologian in Ifriqiya, who played an important role in the Arab conquest of Sicily.

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Astronomy

Astronomy is a natural science that studies celestial objects and the phenomena that occur in the cosmos.

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Āyah

An āyah (آية,; آيات) is a "verse" in the Quran, one of the statements of varying length that make up the chapters (surah) of the Quran and are marked by a number.

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Baghdad

Baghdad (or; translit) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab and in West Asia after Tehran.

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Banu Hilal

The Banu Hilal (translit) was a confederation of Arab tribes from the Najd region of the central Arabian Peninsula that emigrated to the Maghreb region of North Africa in the 11th century.

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Barrel vault

A barrel vault, also known as a tunnel vault, wagon vault or wagonhead vault, is an architectural element formed by the extrusion of a single curve (or pair of curves, in the case of a pointed barrel vault) along a given distance.

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Bay (architecture)

In architecture, a bay is the space between architectural elements, or a recess or compartment.

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Beam (structure)

A beam is a structural element that primarily resists loads applied laterally across the beam's axis (an element designed to carry a load pushing parallel to its axis would be a strut or column).

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Berbers

Berbers, or the Berber peoples, also called by their endonym Amazigh or Imazighen, are a diverse grouping of distinct ethnic groups indigenous to North Africa who predate the arrival of Arabs in the Arab migrations to the Maghreb.

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Bishr ibn Safwan al-Kalbi

Bishr ibn Safwan al-Kalbi (died 727) was a provincial governor for the Umayyad Caliphate, serving in Egypt (720–721) and Ifriqiyah (721–727).

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Blind arcade

A blind arcade or blank arcade is an arcade (a series of arches) that has no actual openings and that is applied to the surface of a wall as a decorative element: i.e., the arches are not windows or openings but are part of the masonry face. Great Mosque of Kairouan and blind arcade are arcades (architecture).

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Blue Quran

The Blue Quran (Arabic: الْمُصْحَف الْأَزْرَق, romanized: al-Muṣḥaf al-′Azraq) is an early Quranic manuscript written in Kufic script.

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Botany

Botany, also called plant science (or plant sciences), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.

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Bracket (architecture)

A bracket is a structural or decorative architectural element that projects from a wall, usually to carry weight and sometimes to "strengthen an angle".

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Brick

A brick is a type of construction material used to build walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction.

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Bronze

Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals, such as phosphorus, or metalloids, such as arsenic or silicon.

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Buttress

A buttress is an architectural structure built against or projecting from a wall which serves to support or reinforce the wall.

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Byzantine architecture

Byzantine architecture is the architecture of the Byzantine Empire, or Eastern Roman Empire, usually dated from 330 AD, when Constantine the Great established a new Roman capital in Byzantium, which became Constantinople, until the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453.

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Caliphate

A caliphate or khilāfah (خِلَافَةْ) is a monarchical form of government (initially elective, later absolute) that originated in the 7th century Arabia, whose political identity is based on a claim of succession to the Islamic State of Muhammad and the identification of a monarch called caliph (خَلِيفَةْ) as his heir and successor.

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Calligraphy

Calligraphy is a visual art related to writing.

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Capital (architecture)

In architecture, the capital or chapiter forms the topmost member of a column (or a pilaster).

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Carthage

Carthage was an ancient city in Northern Africa, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunisia.

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Chandelier

A chandelier is an ornamental lighting device, typically with spreading branched supports for multiple lights, designed to be hung from the ceiling.

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Chemtou

Chemtou or Chimtou was an ancient Roman-Berber town in northwestern Tunisia, located 20 km from the city of Jendouba near the Algerian frontier.

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Cistern

A cistern is a space excavated in bedrock or soil designed for catching and storing water.

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Column

A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below.

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Composite order

The Composite order is a mixed order, combining the volutes of the Ionic order capital with the acanthus leaves of the Corinthian order.

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Conifer cone

A conifer cone or pinecone (strobilus,: strobili in formal botanical usage) is a seed-bearing organ on gymnosperm plants.

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Corinthian order

The Corinthian order (Κορινθιακὸς ῥυθμός, Korinthiakós rythmós; Ordo Corinthius) is the last developed and most ornate of the three principal classical orders of Ancient Greek architecture and Roman architecture.

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Cupola

In architecture, a cupola is a relatively small, most often dome-like, tall structure on top of a building.

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Damascus

Damascus (Dimašq) is the capital and largest city of Syria, the oldest current capital in the world and, according to some, the fourth holiest city in Islam.

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Dodecagon

In geometry, a dodecagon, or 12-gon, is any twelve-sided polygon.

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Dome of the Rock

The Dome of the Rock (Qubbat aṣ-Ṣaḵra) is an Islamic shrine at the center of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. Great Mosque of Kairouan and Dome of the Rock are 7th-century establishments in the Umayyad Caliphate and 7th-century mosques.

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Egypt

Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.

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Eid al-Fitr

Eid al-Fitr (lit) is the earlier of the two official holidays celebrated within Islam (the other being Eid al-Adha).

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Enclosure (archaeology)

In archaeology, an enclosure is one of the most common types of archaeological site – It is any area of land separated from surrounding land by earthworks, walls or fencing.

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Endless knot

Endless knot in a Burmese Pali manuscript The endless knot or eternal knot is a symbolic knot and one of the Eight Auspicious Symbols.

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Epigraphy

Epigraphy is the study of inscriptions, or epigraphs, as writing; it is the science of identifying graphemes, clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and drawing conclusions about the writing and the writers.

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Fatimid Caliphate

The Fatimid Caliphate or Fatimid Empire (al-Khilāfa al-Fāṭimiyya) was a caliphate extant from the tenth to the twelfth centuries CE under the rule of the Fatimids, an Isma'ili Shia dynasty.

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Fiqh

Fiqh (فقه) is Islamic jurisprudence.

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Flagstone

Flagstone (flag) is a generic flat stone, sometimes cut in regular rectangular or square shape and usually used for paving slabs or walkways, patios, flooring, fences and roofing.

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Fluting (architecture)

Fluting in architecture and the decorative arts consists of shallow grooves running along a surface.

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Ghassanids

The Ghassanids, also called the Jafnids, were an Arab tribe which founded a kingdom which was in place from the third century to the seventh century in the area of the Levant and northern Arabia. They emigrated from South Arabia in the early third century to the Levant. Some merged with Hellenized Christian communities, converting to Christianity in the first few centuries, while others may have already been Christians before emigrating north to escape religious persecution.

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Granite

Granite is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase.

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Guy de Maupassant

Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a 19th-century French author, celebrated as a master of the short story, as well as a representative of the naturalist school, depicting human lives, destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.

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Hadrumetum

Hadrumetum, also known by many variant spellings and names, was a Phoenician colony that pre-dated Carthage.

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Hafsid dynasty

The Hafsids (الحفصيون al-Ḥafṣiyūn) were a Sunni Muslim dynasty of Berber descentC. Magbaily Fyle, Introduction to the History of African Civilization: Precolonial Africa, (University Press of America, 1999), 84. who ruled Ifriqiya (modern day Tunisia, western Libya, and eastern Algeria) from 1229 to 1574.

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Hassan ibn al-Nu'man

Hassan ibn al-Nu'man al-Ghassani (Hassān ibn al-Nuʿmān al-Ghassānī) was an Arab general of the Umayyad Caliphate who led the final Muslim conquest of Ifriqiya, firmly establishing Islamic rule in the region.

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Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik

Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan (translit; 6 February 743) was the tenth Umayyad caliph, ruling from 724 until his death in 743.

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History of medieval Arabic and Western European domes

The early domes of the Middle Ages, particularly in those areas recently under Byzantine control, were an extension of earlier Roman architecture.

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Horseshoe arch

The horseshoe arch, also called the Moorish arch and the keyhole arch, is a type of arch in which the circular curve is continued below the horizontal line of its diameter, so that the opening at the bottom of the arch is narrower than the arch's full span.

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Husainid dynasty

The Husainid dynasty or Husaynid dynasty (الحسينيون) was a ruling Turkish dynasty of the Beylik of Tunis.

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Hypostyle

In architecture, a hypostyle hall has a roof which is supported by columns.

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Ibn al-Jazzar

Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Khālid ibn al-Jazzār al-Qayrawani (895–979) (أبو جعفر أحمد بن أبي خالد بن الجزار القيرواني), was a 10th-century Muslim Arab physician who became famous for his writings on Islamic medicine.

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Ibrahim II of Ifriqiya

Abu Ishaq Ibrahim II ibn Ahmad (27 June 850 – 23 October 902) was the Emir of Ifriqiya.

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Imam

Imam (إمام,;: أئمة) is an Islamic leadership position.

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Impluvium

The impluvium (impluvia) is a water-catchment pool system meant to capture rain-water flowing from the compluvium, or slanted roof.

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Indigo

Indigo is a term used for a number of hues in the region of blue.

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Ionic order

The Ionic order is one of the three canonic orders of classical architecture, the other two being the Doric and the Corinthian.

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Iraq

Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and a core country in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East.

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Islam

Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.

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Islamic architecture

Islamic architecture comprises the architectural styles of buildings associated with Islam.

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Islamic art

Islamic art is a part of Islamic culture and encompasses the visual arts produced since the 7th century CE by people who lived within territories inhabited or ruled by Muslim populations.

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Islamic calendar

The Hijri calendar (translit), or Arabic calendar also known in English as the Muslim calendar and Islamic calendar, is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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Jamb

A jamb, in architecture, is the side-post or lining of a doorway or other aperture.

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Jurisprudence

Jurisprudence is the philosophy and theory of law.

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Kairouan

Kairouan, also spelled El Qayrawān or Kairwan (al-Qayrawān, Qeirwān), is the capital of the Kairouan Governorate in Tunisia and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Great Mosque of Kairouan and Kairouan are 7th-century establishments in the Umayyad Caliphate.

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Kufic

The Kufic script (Romanized) is a style of Arabic script that gained prominence early on as a preferred script for Quran transcription and architectural decoration, and it has since become a reference and an archetype for a number of other Arabic scripts.

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Kusaila

Kusaila (Latin: Caecilius) was a 7th-century Berber Christian ruler of the kingdom of Altava and leader of the Awraba tribe, a Christianised sedentary Berber tribe of the Aures and possibly Christian king of the Sanhaja.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Leaf

A leaf (leaves) is a principal appendage of the stem of a vascular plant, usually borne laterally aboveground and specialized for photosynthesis.

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Legend

A legend is a genre of folklore that consists of a narrative featuring human actions, believed or perceived to have taken place in human history.

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Lintel

A lintel or lintol is a type of beam (a horizontal structural element) that spans openings such as portals, doors, windows and fireplaces.

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List of beys of Tunis

This is a list of the beys of Tunis who ruled Tunisia from 1613, when the Corsican-origin Muradid dynasty came to power, until 1957, when the Cretan-origin Husainid monarchy was abolished.

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List of plants known as cedar

Cedar is part of the English common name of many trees and other plants, particularly those of the genus Cedrus.

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List of the oldest mosques

The oldest mosques in the world can refer to the oldest, surviving building or to the oldest mosque congregation.

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In architecture, a long gallery is a long, narrow room, often with a high ceiling.

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Lucien Golvin

Lucien Camille Golvin (18 July 1905 at Villebougis (Yonne) – 6 of July, 2002) was a noted French university professor who specialized in the study of art from the peoples of the Maghreb.

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Lustreware

Lustreware or lusterware (the respective spellings for British English and American English) is a type of pottery or porcelain with a metallic glaze that gives the effect of iridescence.

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Maghreb

The Maghreb (lit), also known as the Arab Maghreb (اَلْمَغْرِبُ الْعَرَبِيُّ) and Northwest Africa, is the western part of the Arab world.

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Maliki school

The Maliki school or Malikism (translit) is one of the four major schools of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam.

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Manchineel

The manchineel tree (Hippomane mancinella) is a species of flowering plant in the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae).

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Manuscript

A manuscript (abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural) was, traditionally, any document written by hand or typewritten, as opposed to mechanically printed or reproduced in some indirect or automated way.

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Maqsurah

Maqsurah (مقصورة, literally "closed-off space") is an enclosure, box, or wooden screen near the mihrab or the center of the qibla wall in a mosque.

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Marble

Marble is a metamorphic rock consisting of carbonate minerals (most commonly calcite (CaCO3) or dolomite (CaMg(CO3)2)) that have crystallized under the influence of heat and pressure.

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Mathematics

Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes abstract objects, methods, theories and theorems that are developed and proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself.

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Mawlid

Mawlid (مولد) is an annual festival and holiday commemorating the birthday of Muhammad on the traditional date of 12 Rabiʽ al-Awwal, the fourth month of the Islamic calendar.

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Mecca

Mecca (officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, commonly shortened to Makkah) is the capital of Mecca Province in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia and the holiest city according to Islam.

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Medina quarter

A medina (from lit) is a historical district in a number of North African cities, often corresponding to an old walled city.

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Merlon

A merlon is the solid upright section of a battlement (a crenellated parapet) in medieval architecture or fortifications.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Mihrab

Mihrab (محراب,, pl. محاريب) is a niche in the wall of a mosque that indicates the qibla, the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca towards which Muslims should face when praying.

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Minar (Firuzabad)

The Minar was a staged, tower-like structure built in the center of the Sasanian circular city of Gōr (modern Firuzabad, Iran).

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Minaret

A minaret (translit, or translit; minare; translit) is a type of tower typically built into or adjacent to mosques.

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Minbar

A minbar (sometimes romanized as mimber) is a pulpit in a mosque where the imam (leader of prayers) stands to deliver sermons (خطبة, khutbah).

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Moorish Mosque, Kapurthala

The Moorish Mosque, Kapurthala situated in Kapurthala in the Indian State of Punjab is patterned on the lines of the Grand Mosque of Marrakesh, Morocco.

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Mosque

A mosque, also called a masjid, is a place of worship for Muslims.

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Motif (visual arts)

In art and iconography, a motif is an element of an image.

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Muradid dynasty

The Muradid dynasty was a dynasty of beys that ruled Tunisia from 1613 to 1702.

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Museum

A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying and/or preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects.

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Muslim world

The terms Muslim world and Islamic world commonly refer to the Islamic community, which is also known as the Ummah.

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Naskh (script)

Naskh is a smaller, round script of Islamic calligraphy.

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Natural history

Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi, and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.

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Nevill Barbour

Nevill Barbour (17 February 1895 – December 1972) was a BBC journalist and reporter who wrote about the Arab world.

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Niche (architecture)

In architecture, a niche (CanE, or) is a recess or cavity constructed in the thickness of a wall for the reception of decorative objects such as statues, busts, urns, and vases.

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North Africa

North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of the Western Sahara in the west, to Egypt and Sudan's Red Sea coast in the east.

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Oculus (architecture)

An oculus (oculi) is a circular opening in the center of a dome or in a wall.

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Oratory (worship)

In the canon law of the Catholic Church, an oratory is a place which is set aside by permission of an ordinary for divine worship, for the convenience of some community or group of the faithful who assemble there, but to which other members of the faithful may have access with the consent of the competent superior.

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Ottoman Tunisia

Ottoman Tunisia, also known as the Regency of Tunis, refers to the Ottoman presence in Ifriqiya from the 16th to 19th centuries, when Tunis was officially integrated into the Ottoman Empire as the Eyalet of Tunis.

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Paul Sebag

Paul Sebag (Tunisian Arabic: پول صباغ) (26 September 1919 – 5 September 2004) was a French-Tunisian sociologist and historian.

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Physician

A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments.

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Poet

A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry.

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Porch

A porch (from Old French porche, from Latin porticus "colonnade", from porta "passage") is a room or gallery located in front of an entrance of a building.

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Porphyry (geology)

Porphyry is any of various granites or igneous rocks with coarse-grained crystals such as feldspar or quartz dispersed in a fine-grained silicate-rich, generally aphanitic matrix or groundmass.

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Portico

A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls.

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Prayer

Prayer is an invocation or act that seeks to activate a rapport with an object of worship through deliberate communication.

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Qibla

The qibla (lit) is the direction towards the Kaaba in the Sacred Mosque in Mecca, which is used by Muslims in various religious contexts, particularly the direction of prayer for the salah.

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Quadrilateral

In geometry a quadrilateral is a four-sided polygon, having four edges (sides) and four corners (vertices).

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Quran

The Quran, also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God (Allah).

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Rainer Maria Rilke

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was an Austrian poet and novelist.

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Raqqada

Raqqāda (رقّادة) is the site of the second capital of the 9th-century dynasty of Aghlabids, located about ten kilometers southwest of Kairouan, Tunisia.

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René Basset

René Basset (24July 18554January 1924) was a French orientalist, specialist of the Berber language and the Arabic language.

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Robert Delpire

Robert Delpire (24 January 1926 – 26 September 2017) was an art publisher, editor, curator, film producer and graphic designer who lived and worked in Paris.

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Sahnun

Sahnun ibn Sa'id ibn Habib at-Tanukhi (c. 776/77 – 854/55) (160 AH – 240 AH) was a jurist in the Maliki school from Qayrawan in modern-day Tunisia.

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Samarra

Samarra (سَامَرَّاء) is a city in Iraq.

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Sbeitla

Sbeitla (سبيطلة) is a small town in west-central Tunisia.

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Scroll

A scroll (from the Old French escroe or escroue), also known as a roll, is a roll of papyrus, parchment, or paper containing writing.

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Septentrional

Septentrional, meaning "of the north", is a Latinate adjective sometimes used in English.

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Squinch

In architecture, a squinch is a structural element used to support the base of a circular or octagonal dome that surmounts a square-plan chamber.

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Stucco

Stucco or render is a construction material made of aggregates, a binder, and water.

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Sundial

A sundial is a horological device that tells the time of day (referred to as civil time in modern usage) when direct sunlight shines by the apparent position of the Sun in the sky.

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Surah

A surah (translit; label) is an Arabic word meaning 'chapter' in the Quran.

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Teak

Teak (Tectona grandis) is a tropical hardwood tree species in the family Lamiaceae.

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Tholobate

A tholobate (from dome pedestal) or drum is the upright part of a building on which a dome is raised.

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Thomas Shaw (divine and traveller)

Thomas Shaw (1694–1751) was an English cleric and traveller.

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Transom (architecture)

In architecture, a transom is a transverse horizontal structural beam or bar, or a crosspiece separating a door from a window above it.

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Tunis

Tunis (تونس) is the capital and largest city of Tunisia.

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Tunisia

Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is the northernmost country in Africa.

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Tympanum (architecture)

A tympanum (tympana; from Greek and Latin words meaning "drum") is the semi-circular or triangular decorative wall surface over an entrance, door or window, which is bounded by a lintel and an arch.

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Umayyad Caliphate

The Umayyad Caliphate or Umayyad Empire (al-Khilāfa al-Umawiyya) was the second caliphate established after the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and was ruled by the Umayyad dynasty. Great Mosque of Kairouan and Umayyad Caliphate are 7th-century establishments in Africa.

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University of Ez-Zitouna

Ez-Zitouna University (translit, Université Ez-Zitouna) is a public ancient medieval university in Tunis, Tunisia.

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University of Paris

The University of Paris (Université de Paris), known metonymically as the Sorbonne, was the leading university in Paris, France, from 1150 to 1970, except for 1793–1806 during the French Revolution.

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Uqba ibn Nafi

ʿUqba ibn Nāfiʿ ibn ʿAbd al-Qays al-Fihrī al-Qurashī (ʿUqba ibn Nāfiʿ ibn ʿAbd al-Qays al-Fihrī), also simply known as Uqba ibn Nafi, was an Arab general serving the Rashidun Caliphate since the reign of Umar and later the Umayyad Caliphate during the reigns of Mu'awiya I and Yazid I, leading the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb, including present-day Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco and a failed attempt in Nubia.

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Vase

A vase is an open container.

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Vault (architecture)

In architecture, a vault (French voûte, from Italian volta) is a self-supporting arched form, usually of stone or brick, serving to cover a space with a ceiling or roof.

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Vellum

Vellum is prepared animal skin or membrane, typically used as writing material.

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Wadi

Wadi (wādī), alternatively wād (وَاد), Maghrebi Arabic Oued) is the Arabic term traditionally referring to a river valley. In some instances, it may refer to a wet (ephemeral) riverbed that contains water only when heavy rain occurs. Arroyo (Spanish) is used in the Americas for similar landforms.

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Well

A well is an excavation or structure created in the earth by digging, driving, or drilling to access liquid resources, usually water.

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Woodworking

Woodworking is the skill of making items from wood, and includes cabinetry, furniture making, wood carving, joinery, carpentry, and woodturning.

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World Heritage Site

World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.

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Yazid ibn Hatim al-Muhallabi

Yazid ibn Hatim al-Muhallabi (يزيد بن حاتمالمهلبي) (died March 13, 787) was a member of the Muhallabid family who served as the governor of Adharbayjan, Egypt (762–769) and Ifriqiya (771–787) for the Abbasid Caliphate.

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Zirid dynasty

The Zirid dynasty (translit), Banu Ziri (translit), was a Sanhaja Berber dynasty from what is now Algeria which ruled the central Maghreb from 972 to 1014 and Ifriqiya (eastern Maghreb) from 972 to 1148.

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Ziyadat Allah I of Ifriqiya

Abu Muhammad Ziyadat Allah I ibn Ibrahim ibn al-Aghlab (Arabic: زيادة الله الأول) (d. 10 June 838) was the Aghlabid ruler (amir) of Ifriqiya from 817 until his death in 838.

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See also

670 establishments

703 establishments

7th-century establishments in Africa

7th-century establishments in the Umayyad Caliphate

7th-century mosques

8th-century mosques

Aghlabid architecture

Arcades (architecture)

Kairouan

Mosques in Tunisia

Religious buildings and structures completed in the 670s

Religious buildings and structures completed in the 700s

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Mosque_of_Kairouan

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