The Mamluk Minarets of Ramla
IntroductionOne of the most remarkable symbols of Ramla is the thirty meters high minaret, standing at the northern wall of the city’s old Umayyad mosque – best known as the White Mosque. This tower from which the faithful were called to prayers was erected in 1318, in the third rule of the Mamluk...
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Bulletin du Centre de recherche français à Jérusalem
2011
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| Zusammenfassung: | IntroductionOne of the most remarkable symbols of Ramla is the thirty meters high minaret, standing at the northern wall of the city’s old Umayyad mosque – best known as the White Mosque. This tower from which the faithful were called to prayers was erected in 1318, in the third rule of the Mamluk Sultan al-Nāṣir Muḥammad b. Qalāwun (1310-1341). Four years earlier, another minaret, which has not survived, was erected by the same ruler over Ramla’s Great Mosque, a converted church dating to t... |
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