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    The White Minaret is a stone minaret beside the Aqsa Mosque in Qadian, Punjab. It was constructed under the direction of the Indian religious leader Mirza...
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  • White Tower may refer to: White Tower or Tower of the Forty Martyrs, Mamluk minaret of the White Mosque, Ramla, Israel White Tower of Thessaloniki, a monument...
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    Jesus will descend from heaven at his Second Coming, appearing on a "white minaret". Most Muslim theologians interpret this passage as symbolic rather...
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    appearance of the Dajjal, ʿĪsā will descend on a white minaret to the east of Damascus, thought to be the Minaret of Isa located on the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus...
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    Antichrist) and his followers. Jesus will descend at the point of a white minaret, east of Damascus, dressed in saffron robes—his head anointed. He will...
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    HaLavan) was an Umayyad-era mosque located in Ramle, Israel. Only its minaret is still standing. According to local Islamic tradition, the northwestern...
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  • would descend at the point of a white minaret of the Umayyad Mosque in eastern Damascus (believed to be the Minaret of Jesus) and join the Mahdi. Jesus...
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    Jesus will descend at the point of a white minaret, in eastern Damascus, which is believed to be the Minaret of Isa in the Umayyad Mosque. He will then...
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    Islam states that Jesus will return at a white minaret at the east of Damascus (believed to be the Minaret of Isa in the Umayyad Mosque), and will pray...
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    compound of the ancestrial house of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, close to the White Minaret, and located in the Ahmadiyya Mohallah of Qadian. The mosque was built...
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  • earth, "wearing saffron robes" and borne by two angels. Arriving at the white minaret of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus" he will hurry to Jerusalem and without...
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    downwards, in natural colours. The green portion contained an image of a white minaret. Moreover, on the blue quarter, an Arabian dhow in full sail on waves...
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  • professional journalist for more than three decades. His debut novel The White Minaret was nominated for the Arabic Booker Prize in 2022. https://arabicfiction...
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    Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at The White Minaret and the Ahmadiyya flag in Qadian, India. For Ahmadi Muslims, the two symbolize the...
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    of Islam to Maldives. The mosque's adjoining large, round blue-and-white minaret (built in 1675) resembles a wedding cake, with a wide base similar to...
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    around 1158, with Ya'qub al-Mansur possibly finalizing construction of the minaret around 1195. This second mosque is the structure that stands today. It...
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    Universe Unfulfilled Christian religious predictions When Prophecy Fails White Minaret Greisiger, Lutz (2015). "Apocalypticism, Millenarianism, and Messianism"...
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  • Qutb Minar (category Minarets in India)
    The Qutb Minar, also spelled Qutub Minar and Qutab Minar, is a minaret and "victory tower" that forms part of the Qutb complex, which lies at the site...
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    and other domes and religious structures, as well as the four encircling minarets. It is considered the third holiest site in Islam. The compound's main...
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    Minaret Summit is a mountain pass on Highway 203 in the central Sierra Nevada. The pass, lying on the Madera-Mono County border, is within the Mammoth...
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    the 14th largest in the world.[citation needed] Its minaret is the world's second tallest minaret at 210 metres (689 ft). Completed in 1993, it was designed...
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    reflected more multi-purpose functions, often with an attached mausoleum, a minaret, and an ornate entrance portal. The courtyards were sometimes covered by...
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  • The minaret, if it is the original, is the first example of a minaret, but due to architectural weaknesses brought on by the placement of the minaret, it...
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    Khalifa Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad. The grand mosque has two white minarets standing 34 metres tall, which dominate the low-rise skyline of the...
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    Muslim Community Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad. The mosque has two white minarets standing 35 metres tall, which dominate the skyline of the residential...
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    its media outlet, al-Manarah al-Bayda (Arabic: المنارة البيضاء) (The White Minaret), via the leading jihadist webforum Shamoukh al-Islam (Arabic: شموخ...
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    contains a hypostyle prayer hall, a marble-paved courtyard and a square minaret. In addition to its spiritual prestige, the Mosque of Uqba is one of the...
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  • the Crimean Tatar "Aqmeçit", which literally means a white mosque. A mosque with a tall white minaret used to exist here. After the Crimean Tatars were forcibly...
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    time only around 500 were attending prayers. It is a distinctive red and white candy-striped two-storey building, with a clock tower, and is reminiscent...
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    afterwards. The minaret of the mosque would also date from this expansion. The mosque's name, jama' beida or jama' al-beida, means either "White Mosque" or...
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