Khalid ibn al-Walid Mosque: The Epic of the Sword That Ended at the Door of Prayer

جامع خالد بن الوليد: ملحمة السيف الذي انتهى عند باب الصلاة

By Architect Imad Darouich

Ten chapters join the seventh-century commander Khalid ibn al-Walid to the mosque that bears his name in Homs: his conversion, the Syrian campaigns and his dismissal, the shrine recorded by Ibn Jubayr, the Mamluk building and the Ottoman mosque of about 1912 with its two minarets and ablaq stone, its damage in 2013 and its restoration.

Format

PDF ebook

Languages

Arabic and English

Collection

Faith & Spirit