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    The Zawiya of Sidi Sahib, also known as the Zawiya of Abu al-Balawi or Mosque of the Barber, is a zawiya (religious shrine and complex) in Kairouan, Tunisia...
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    The zawiyas of Kairouan are believed to be the oldest and are centered around the tombs of local saints. These include the Zawiya of Sidi Sahib (or Abu...
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    Kairouan (redirect from History of Kairouan)
    Zawiya of Sidi Sahib, also known as the Mosque of the Barber, is a religious complex containing the mausoleum of Abu Zama' al-Balawi, a companion of the...
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    lodges have been mostly known as zāwiyas or ribāṭs. The Zawiya of Sidi Qasim al-Jalizi in Tunis The Zawiya of Sidi Sahib in Kairouan (rebuilt in the 17th...
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    a list of mosques in Kairouan, Tunisia. Great Mosque of Kairouan Mosque of the Three Doors Mosque of the Barber (Zawiya of Sidi Sahib) List of mosques...
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    Ziyarat, Imam Sahib, Kunduz Province Tyrbja e Abaz Aliut List of Bektashi tekkes Sidi Abou Median El Ghawth (Sidi Boumedienne), Tlemcen Sidi Mohamed ben...
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    بودمعة of the Kunta family, born in the region of the Noun river, d. 1504 in Akka) established a Qadiri zawiya (Sufi residence) in Walata. In the sixteenth...
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    Under Husayn ibn Ali (r. 1705–1735), founder of the Husaynid dynasty, the Zawiya (mausoleum complex) of Sidi Qasim al-Jalizi, was restored and expanded...
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    a zawiya, khanqah, or tekke) to provide a gathering place for Sufi adepts, as well as lodging for itinerant seekers of knowledge. The same system of endowments...
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    visit a Sufi shrine at least once per year. Sufi Shrines (Zawiya) in Tunisia exceed the number of mosques. Said Atsayev—also known as Sheikh Said Afandi...
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    1291: Construction of the mosque of Taza, the earliest preserved Marinid building. 1296: Construction of Sidi Boumediene mosque, or Sidi Belhasan, in Tlemcen...
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  • Hirzihim (Sidi Harazim) and Al-Wazzan (Leo Africanus) as well as the Jewish theologian Maimonides and the Catholic Pope Sylvester II. The writings of Sufi...
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    Qalamoun offensive (May–June 2015) (category Military operations of the Syrian civil war involving the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant)
    al-Nusra Front and other Syrian opposition forces entrenched in the mountains of the Qalamoun region. In mid-November 2013, the Syrian military, backed by...
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