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- saints are buried behind a maqsurah in a similar way to a zarih. The first maqsura is believed to have been created by Caliph Uthman (caliph between 644 and...
- architecturally-defined maqsura (an area reserved for the emir or caliph during prayer), which date from the expansion of Caliph Al-Hakam II after 965. This maqsura area...
- Aleph (or alef or alif, transliterated ʾ) is the first letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ʾālep 𐤀, Hebrew ʾālef א, Aramaic ʾālap 𐡀, Syriac...
- courtyard, two opening on the prayer hall and a ninth allows access to the maqsura) some of them, such as Bab Al-Ma (gate of water) located on the western...
- mosque. The new maqsura was built at the extreme east end of the northern aisle, next to the north-eastern pier. The existing maqsura in the apse, near...
- Alif maqṣūra with alif khanjariah above it, often used in Egypt, Sudan, Iran, and various other countries to distinguish it from the dotless yā (ی)[citation...
- Kutubiyya Mosque of a near-legendary mechanism which allowed the wooden maqsura (a screen separating the caliph and his entourage from the rest of the...
- wooden maqsura in the Great Mosque of Kairouan is believed to date from al-Mu'izz ibn Badis's restoration of the building. It is the oldest maqsura in the...
- move forward into position for the imam's sermon.: 176–177  Likewise, the maqsura of the mosque (a wooden screen that separated the caliph and his entourage...
- Al-Mu'izz ibn Badis. The wooden maqsura within the mosque today is believed to date from this time.: 87  It is the oldest maqsura in the Islamic world to be...