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    The Great Mosque of al-Nuri (Arabic: ٱلْجَامِع ٱلنُّورِي ٱلْكَبِير, romanized: al-Jāmiʿ an-Nūrī al-Kabīr) also called al-Nouri Mosque, is a mosque in Homs...
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  • Great Mosque of al-Nuri may refer to: Great Mosque of al-Nuri (Homs), Syria Great Mosque of al-Nuri (Mosul), Iraq This disambiguation page lists articles...
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    Homs (UK: /hɒms/ HOMSS, US: /hɔːms, hɔːmz, hʊms/ HAWMSS, HAWMZ, HUUMSS; Arabic: حِمْص / ALA-LC: Ḥimṣ [ħɪmsˤ]; Levantine Arabic: حُمْص / Ḥomṣ [ħɔmsˤ]),...
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  • independent ruler of Homs and a key opponent of Ridwan, was assassinated by three Persian fida'i at the Great Mosque of al-Nuri, Homs. This was apparently...
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  • Great Mosque of Aleppo Great Mosque of al-Nuri, Homs Great Mosque of Damascus, aka the Umayyad Mosque Great Mosque of Hama Great Mosque of Maarrat al-Numan...
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    Homs lies on either side of Quwatli Street, named after former Syrian president Shukri al-Quwatli. At its eastern end is the Great Mosque of al-Nuri and...
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    (Yahya), which was earlier, a Roman Pagan temple of Jupiter. Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Homs; initially a pagan temple for the sun god ("El-Gabal"), then...
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    Ṭarābulus al-Gharb (Arabic: طرابلس الغرب‎, lit. 'Tripoli of the West'). Landmarks of Tripoli include the Mansouri Great Mosque and the Citadel of Tripoli...
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    destroyed the Great Mosque of al-Nuri and its leaning minaret. This was the mosque where IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared the establishment of the Islamic...
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    723185°N 36.714462°E / 34.723185; 36.714462 The Gates of Homs refer to gates of the city of Homs in central Syria. Historically under the Abbasid dynasty...
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    Hama (redirect from Emirate of Hamah)
    of Maryamin (4th century AD) al-Nuri mosque, finished in 1163 by Nur ad-Din after the earthquake of 1157. Notable is the minaret. The small Mamluk al-Izzi...
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    in Damascus, Homs and Hama. Al-Atrash won several battles against the French at the beginning of the revolution, notably the Battle of al-Kafr on 21 July...
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    congregation at the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, northern Iraq on 4 July 2014. In the video, al-Baghdadi declares himself caliph of the Islamic State...
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    Ayyubid dynasty (category History of North Africa)
    decided to annex Homs in the winter of 1248. The city surrendered in August and an-Nasir Yusuf's terms forced al-Ashraf Musa to hand over Homs, but he was...
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    Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 1993. Baybars al-Madidi, Khasd; Abdul Muhammad, Sawadi; Abdul Qadir an-Nuri, Duraid. History of the Arab world and the Crusades. Mosul...
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    Zengid dynasty (category Medieval history of Syria)
    Damascus Front of the Nur al-Din Bimaristan, 1154 The Great Mosque of al-Nuri before its destruction in 2017 Mihrab from al-Nuri Mosque in Mosul, Iraq...
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  • Great Mosque of al-Nuri 'is Isis declaring defeat'". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 21 June 2017. Retrieved 22 June 2017. "Grand al-Nuri...
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    severely damaged in 2015), the Great Mosque of al-Nuri (built in 1172 by the Zengids, destroyed in 2017), the Imam al-Baher Mosque (built in 1259, destroyed...
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    emir of Homs and a key opponent of Ridwan. He was murdered by three Assassins at the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Homs. Al-Hakim died a few weeks later and...
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    attacked and later fell; following this, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki called for a national state of emergency on 10 June. However, despite the security...
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    a video titled End of Sykes–Picot. ISIL's former leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in a July 2014 speech at the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, vowed that...
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  • the Hadba minaret at the 12th-century Great Mosque of Al-Nuri have been described as "an unchecked outburst of extreme Wahhabism".[citation needed] "There...
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    Qasem Soleimani (category Recipients of the Order of Fath)
    influenced the organization of the Iraqi government, notably supporting the election of previous Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki. In 2009, The Economist...
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    force, with horrific consequences." Three-quarters of Prince Feisal's 4,000-strong force including Nuri Al Shalaan's camel force, were irregulars. They had...
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    approximately 100000 protesters sat in the central Square of Homs calling for the resignation of President Bashar al-Assad. Protests continued through July 2011, the...
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    the Syrian battalion, which largely consisted of volunteers from Damascus's al-Midan Quarter, Hama and Homs. The Druze ex-Ottoman officer, Hamad Sa'ab,...
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    experience for the young officers of the Ottoman Army, such as Mustafa Kemal Bey, Enver Bey, Ali Fethi Bey, Cami Bey, Nuri Bey and many others. These young...
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    secretary-general of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Abdul Qayum (born 1960), Chief Imam of the East London Mosque Habibullah Qurayshi (1865–1934), co-founder of Al-Jamiatul...
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  • Agence France-Presse. 23 December 2009. "Iraqi MP killed in suicide attack". Al Jazeera. Reuters. 15 January 2013. Retrieved 15 January 2013. "PI points finger...
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    List of World Heritage Sites in Western Asia Destruction of cultural heritage by ISIL World Heritage Centre – World Heritage List "Al Qal'a of Beni Hammad"...
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