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In 2007, the association was expelled by the Sunni Endowment, a quasi-governmental agency responsible for Sunni mosques in Iraq, which took control of Umm al-Qura. [3] On 28 August 2011, the mosque was attacked by a suicide bomber during Friday prayers, killing at least 28 people and injuring 30 more. An Iraqi member of parliament, Khalid al ...
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.
Umm al-Qura or Um al-Qura (Arabic for "Mother of All Settlements") may refer to: the city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia; Umm al-Qura Mosque in Baghdad, Iraq; Umm al-Qura University in Mecca, Saudi Arabia; the Umm al-Qura calendar, an Islamic calendar based on astronomical calculations; Um Al-Qura, a Saudi newspaper
On 28 August 2011, an attack by the Islamic State of Iraq was launched at the Umm al-Qura Mosque in western Baghdad.A suicide bomber wearing a fake cast on his arm walked into the building and blew himself up inside the main hall, killing 32 people including parliamentarian Khalid al-Fahdawi. [1]
Umm al-Tabul Mosque: Baghdād: 1968 Su Built in commemoration of the officers participating in the 1959 Mosul uprising. Umm al-Qura Mosque: Baghdād: 2001 Su Al-Wazeer Mosque: Baghdād: 1660 Su Mausoleum of Yahya Abu al-Qasim: Mosul: 799: Sh Entombs the remains of Abu'l Qasim Yahya ibn al-Hasan. Destroyed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant ...
Umm al-Qura Mosque, where the Blood Quran was displayed. Following the fall of Baghdad to US-led forces in April 2003, the custodians of the mosque put the Blood Quran into storage for safekeeping. The death of Saddam left the Iraqi religious and secular authorities with the dilemma of what should be done with the relics of his rule.
Abu al-Darda', (invaded Cyprus in the year 28 AH (648/649 AD), stayed in Marj al-Silsilah (in North Lebanon) and Beirut shortly after its conquest). A mosque attributed to Abu Dharr al-Ghifari in Mays al-Jabal in southern Lebanon. Abu Dhar al-Ghifari (Marj al-Silsilah, Cyprus, and perhaps Sarafand, his son stayed in Beirut).
The Theory of Umm al-Qura (Persian: نظریهٔ اُمّالقُریٰ, means: the mother of cities, the core of nation of the Islamic world) is a theory to explain the foreign policy and analysis of the borders of power of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Iran's position in the Islamic world, which was proposed by Mohammad Javad Larijani in the 1980s.