Islamic Museum, Jerusalem

Coordinates: 31°46′33.87″N 35°14′05.32″E / 31.7760750°N 35.2348111°E / 31.7760750; 35.2348111
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Islamic Museum
متحف الآثار الإسلامية
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Established1923
LocationAl-Aqsa, Jerusalem
Coordinates31°46′33.87″N 35°14′05.32″E / 31.7760750°N 35.2348111°E / 31.7760750; 35.2348111
Typemuseum
Al-Aqsa Mosque
is in the back.

The Islamic Museum (

al-Aqsa Mosque
, across a courtyard.

History

The building was originally constructed by the Knights Templar[citation needed], who used it as an annex to their headquarters established at the former Al-Aqsa Mosque. Following the Muslim reconquest of Jerusalem, the mosque was restored in 1194 CE.[1]

The annex building served an assembly hall for the Fakhr al-Din Mohammad School (al-Fakhriya), a

al-Mansur Qalawun in 1282 CE, during the Mamluk era.[2]
Most of the other buildings of the al-Fakhriya madrasa complex – considered part of the al-Aqsa Mosque – were demolished by the Israeli Army in 1969.[3]

The building also housed the Mosque of the Maghrebis (Jāmiʿ al-Maghāribah, جامع المغاربة),[4][5] also known as the "Mosque of the Malikis",

Maliki
school of jurisprudence. The Maghrebi mosque bordered the now-vanished
Maghrebi Quarter, a neighborhood that was completely razed by the Israelis in 1967.[7]

The museum was established by the Supreme Muslim Council in 1923. Shadia Yousef Touqan was the head planner of the site.[2] By 1927, the Mosque of the Maghrebis was converted into the Islamic Museum.[8]

Khader Salameh was a notable head curator of the museum.[9]

Exhibits

The Islamic Museum displays large copper soup kettles used in the

rioting on the Temple Mount in 1990.[9]

Qur'an manuscripts

The museum has 600 copies of the Qur'an donated to the al-Aqsa Mosque during the

Abu al-Hasan al-Marini of Morocco; it is the only manuscript remaining from three collections that the sultan dispatched to the mosques of the three holy cities in Islam — Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.[10] In addition, there is a very large Qur'an, measuring 100 by 90 centimetres (3.3 ft × 3.0 ft), dating back to the 14th century.[9]

Environs

It is in the same southwestern corner of the compound as the

al-Fakhariyya Minaret
. To the north of the museum, there is
Moors' Gate
(Maghrebi Gate / Morocco Gate). The southern part of the museum is right next to the al-Aqsa Library.[citation needed]

The small courtyard east of the museum has the

al-Aqsa Mosque's western side.[citation needed
]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Islamic Museum - Discover Islamic Art - Virtual Museum".
  2. ^ a b Al-Aqsa Library and Islamic Museum Archived 2011-08-05 at the Wayback Machine Archenet Digital Library.
  3. ^ "Zawiyat Madrasat al-Qadi Fakhr al-Din Abu ʿAbdallah (al-Fakhriya)". Institute for International Urban Development (I2UD).
  4. Haram
    .
  5. ^ Maps that show the former mosque:
    • 1865: “Mosque of the Maghâribe (Western Africans)” [sic: North Africans; the Maghreb is the west of the Arab world, but it is in north Africa]
    • 1886: “Jâmi' al Maghâribah”
    • 1888: mosquée des Mogrebins (dated French for ‘Mosque of the Maghrebis’)
    • 1890: “Jâmi' al Maghâribah, or Mosque of the Moghrebins”
    • 1899: “Mosque of the Moghrebins”
    • 1936: (#36) “Mosque, El Maghariba (Islamic Museum)”
  6. ISBN 978-0-905035-33-8
    . Mosque of the Malikis (Jami' al - Maghariba)
  7. ISBN 978-1-4443-5550-5
    . Indeed one Palestinian neighbourhood, the Mughrabi quarter, inside the Old City was completely demolished.
  8. ISBN 978-1-4008-8616-6
    . It was known until 1927 as the Mosque of the Maghrebis, and has since been converted into a [Islamic] museum
  9. ^ a b c The Islamic Museum Archived 2008-05-12 at the Wayback Machine Jerusalemites
  10. ^ Salameh, Khader; Schick, Robert (1998). "The Qur'an Manuscripts of the Islamic Museum" (PDF). The Bulletin of Middle East Medievalists. 10 (10): 1. The Museum collection includes both single-volume (maṣḥaf) and multi-volume (rabʿah) Qur'an manuscripts.
  11. ^ "Column capital". Museum with No Frontiers.
  12. ^ "Photos of the capitals". Madain Project.

External links

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