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Great Mosque, prayer hall, wooden pulpit (minbar)

Great Mosque, prayer hall, wooden pulpit (minbar)

The unique wooden minbar, or pulpit, belongs to the Mamluk era as indicated by the inscribed name of the Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad, son of Qalawun (d. 741 AH / 1341 AD). The carpenter’s name is Muhammad ibn ʿAli al-Mawsili.

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Great Mosque, prayer hall, wooden pulpit (minbar)

    Place
  • Jamiʿ Halab al-Kabir
    Time Period
  • 1980s, 1985
    Type of Subject
  • Hypostyle mosque
    Keywords
  • Inscription, Minbar
    Place hierarchy
  • World,Asia,Syria,Muhafazat Aleppo,Mintaqat Jabal Samʿan,Nahiyat Markaz Jabal Samʿan,Aleppo,al-Mintaqa as-Sabiʿa,al-Mintaqa as-Sabiʿa-2-1,Jamiʿ Halab al-Kabir
    Collection
  • Collection Heidemann (Stefan)
    Author
  • Stefan Heidemann
    Copyright
  • © Stefan Heidemann (CC-BY-NC-ND)
    EasyDB ID
  • 60258

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