Maqsurah (Arabic: مقصورة, literally "closed-off space") is an enclosure, box, or wooden screen near the mihrab or the center of the qibla wall in a mosque...
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Aleph (section Alif maqṣūrah: ى)
vowel /ə/. Alif maqsurah is transliterated as á in ALA-LC, ā in DIN 31635, à in ISO 233-2, and ỳ in ISO 233. In Arabic, alif maqsurah ى is not used initially...
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Yodh (section Alif maqṣūrah)
the ʾalif maqṣūrah (أَلِف مَقْصُورَة) "limited/restricted alif", with the form ى. It indicates a final long /aː/. In Arabic, alif maqṣūrah is the letter...
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of spelling the same sound in the Arabic script, e.g. alif ا vs. alif maqṣūrah ى for the sound /aː/ ā, and the six different ways (ء إ أ آ ؤ ئ) of writing...
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Great Mosque of Aleppo (section Maqsurah)
number of ancient manuscripts. Similar to the Great Mosque of Damascus, a maqsurah was built in the form of a square domed room raised by one step above the...
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Imamzada Yayha in Veramin, Iran and now is installed at a museum in Hawaii. Maqsurah Exedra K. A. C. Creswell and some later scholars argued that the oldest...
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Egyptians do not use dots under final yā’ (ي), which looks exactly like alif maqṣūrah (ى) in handwriting and in print. This practice is also used in copies of...
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only the initial vowel is transliterated (if pronounced): i-. (ﻯ) ʾalif maqṣūrah appears as ā, transliterating it indistinguishable from ʾalif. Long vowels...
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rests on an alif maqṣūrah or occasionally alif. When definite, they are not marked, and they simply retain their long alif or alif maqṣūrah. An example is...
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the long vowels are represented by the vowel in question: ʾalif ṭawīlah/maqṣūrah, wāw, or yāʾ. Long vowels written in the middle of a word of unvocalized...
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Ibn Duraid (redirect from Kitāb al-Maqṣūrah)
his Omani ancestry, his poetry contains some distinctly Omani themes. Maqṣūrah (مقصورة) i.e. "Compartment", or "Short Alif" (maqsūr); also known as Kasīda;...
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word Pushish (also the "covered part," exactly as "Al Mughatta") or the Maqsurah (a part-for-the-whole synecdoche). The building is also referred to as...
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/aː/ in the Classical language). This is the apparent source of the alif maqṣūrah 'restricted alif' where a final /-aja/ is reconstructed: a letter that...
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in 958) and his son al-Hakam II added a richly-decorated new mihrab and maqsurah section (finished in 971). The mosque was converted to a cathedral in 1236...
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064A ي FEF1 ﻱ FEF2 ﻲ FEF4 ﻴ FEF3 ﻳ yāʾ 0622 آ FE81 ﺁ FE82 ﺂ ʾalif maddah 0629 ة FE93 ﺓ FE94 ﺔ — — Tāʾ marbūṭah 0649 ى FEEF ﻯ FEF0 ﻰ — — ʾalif maqṣūrah...
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over the street between them, allowing the caliph direct access to the maqsurah area of the mosque via a corridor behind the qibla wall. The first sabbat...
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word Pushish (also the "covered part," exactly as "Al Mughatta") or the Maqsurah (a part-for-the-whole synecdoche). During the period of Mamluk (1250–1517)...
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taling (é) U+064A ye يى ى ـى /ə, a/ -e pepet (ĕ), a Also known as alif maqsurah (الف مقصورة) U+0649 nya ڽا ڽ ـڽ ـڽـ ڽـ /ɲ/ ny Additional letter not...
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Dikka (or müezzin mahfili) Gonbad Hussainiya Imamzadeh Kiswah Loudspeakers Maqsurah Mihrab Minaret Minbar Qibla Zarih Decorations (For overview, see Islamic...
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all attendees, by being placed in the focal point of artistry, or with a maqsurah. Maintaining a sociological hierarchy within a mosque would typically represent...
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43' Kīṭāʾīl* كيطَائِيل ʾAl-Jab'hah ﭐلْجَبْهَة y , ī / ā , ỳ yāʾ / alif maqṣūrah 10 ي \ ى 11th 14 Aug 8° 34' Leo Arabic: بُرْجُ ﭐلْأَسَد, romanized: burju...
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Ştş ştş Shch shch — شش Sheen + Sheen ⠭ — Ъ ъ — ⠷ [ɯ] Ы ы Y y ى Alif maqṣūrah ⠮ [ɪ] І і I ı I i ئ Hamza + Ya ⠊ — Ь ь — ⠾ [e] Э э E e — ە Ha ⠪ [jʊ]...
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architecture, a pillared outdoor hall or pavilion for public rituals. Maqsurah (maqsura) In Islamic architecture, the sanctuary or praying-chamber in...
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Dikka (or müezzin mahfili) Gonbad Hussainiya Imamzadeh Kiswah Loudspeakers Maqsurah Mihrab Minaret Minbar Qibla Zarih Decorations (For overview, see Islamic...
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than five or six blocks of stone. These colonnades lead down to near the Maqsurah. Under Az-Zahir's successor al-Mustansir Billah, the Fatimid Caliphate...
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octagonal plan suggests that it would have looked like existing ones in the maqsurah of the mosque of Córdoba, a dome of interlaced semicircular arches forming...
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person masculine singular past, regular ا ʾalif appears instead of ى ʾalif maqṣūrah: hence دَعَا, not *دَعَى. The otiose final alif appears only after the...
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are spelled in Arabic script with a "tall alif" (ـا) rather than alif maqṣūrah (ـی). Examples are ʻaṣan عصاً "stick" (and possibly riḍan رضاً "approval")...
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structures were added, and it was certainly during this phase that the maqsurah was built, with walls surpassing the roofs of the prayer hall. The entrances...
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University of Chicago. pp. 145–6. ISBN 9780226206363. "Al-Raida Journal". Maqsurah.com. Retrieved 26 August 2023. Santos de Carvalho, Juliana; Beghelli, Oliveira...
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