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  2. Mosque of Salman al-Farsi - Wikipedia

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    The mosque was established in 1950 over a pre-existing mausoleum dedicated to Salman al-Farsi which was already in existence before the 1920s. In 1931, the bodies of Jabir ibn Abdullah , Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman , and Ali al-Tahir ibn Muhammad al-Baqir were exhumed due to their graves being water-logged, and the bodies were transferred to new ...

  3. Salman the Persian - Wikipedia

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    Salman Farsi (Persian: سلمان فارسی; Arabic: سَلْمَان ٱلْفَارِسِيّ) was a Persian religious scholar and one of the companions of Muhammad.As a practicing Zoroastrian, he dedicated much of his early life to studying to become a magus, after which he began travelling extensively throughout Western Asia to engage in constructive dialogue with non-Zoroastrian groups.

  4. List of mosques in Lebanon - Wikipedia

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    Name Images Location Year/century Remarks Al-Attar Mosque: Tripoli: 1350 Al-Burtasi Mosque: Tripoli: before 1381 Fakhreddine Mosque: Deir el Qamar: 1493: The oldest mosque in Mount Lebanon.

  5. Destruction of early Islamic heritage sites in Saudi Arabia

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    The Mosque of al-Manaratain. [8] Mosque and tomb of Sayyid Imam al-Uraidhi ibn Ja'far al-Sadiq, destroyed by dynamite on August 13, 2002. [citation needed] The Mosque of Abu Rasheed. [21] Salman al-Farsi Mosque, in Medina. [21] Raj'at ash-Shams Mosque, in Medina. [21] Mosque and tomb of Hamza at Mount Uhud.

  6. History of Beirut - Wikipedia

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    Wissam al-Hassan was the head of the information branch of Lebanon's Internal Security Forces and one of the country's key security officials. His death comes a few months after he investigated ex-Information Minister Michel Samaha , who was charged with smuggling bombs from Syria with the help of Syrian Security Chief Ali Mamlouk , in order to ...

  7. Islamic garden - Wikipedia

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    A Persian garden, based on the Zoroastrian myth, is a prototype of the garden of water and plants. Water is also an essential aspect of this paradise for the righteous. [6] The water in the garden represents Kausar, the sacred lake in paradise, and only the righteous deserve to drink.

  8. Falnama - Wikipedia

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    The lower half of the painting shows the Al-Aqsa Mosque and its towers. [42] Good Majnun fainting at the sight of Layla's beauty The third of Nizami's five poems in the Khamsa tells the romance of Layla and Majnun. Most of the painting illustrates details of life in Layla's Bedouin tribe. [43] Middle Ali rescuing Salman Al-Farsi from a lion

  9. Liwan - Wikipedia

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    Liwan (Arabic: ليوان, līwān, from Persian eyvān) is a long narrow-fronted hall or vaulted portal in ancient and modern Levantine homes that is often open to the outside. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] An Arabic loanword to English, it is ultimately derived from the Persian eyvān , which preceded by the article al ("the"), came to be said as līwān in ...