Publication Date
1003 AH / 1594 AD
Publication Place
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National Museum of Islamic Antiquities and Arts
Subject
Cedar wood carved in relief, inlaid.
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
الارتفاع: 85 سم؛ السماكة: 5.5 سم؛ القطر: 127 سم
Library
Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID
II.B.15
Record ID
object;ISL;dz;Mus01;29;ar
Library Location
National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art
Date
1003 AH / 1594 AD
Notes
This frontal takes the form of a semi-polygon with nine sides, composed of four panels. The first was decorated with floral decorations; While the other three panels are decorated with an inscription of nine lines, carved in relief, and written in cursive letters, with the exception of the last line, which is written in cursive script and with square corners. The last six lines of the inscription are divided in the middle by floral and geometric decoration. This inscription contains the following text: “I seek refuge in God from the accursed Satan / In houses God permits them to be raised / And His name is mentioned in them, glorifying Him in them mornings and evenings (Qur’an, Surah 21, Verse 36-37) / Houses raised with remembrance, full of God, standing. He forgives those in them / And to the one who established them and established for them the building, Yahya Ibn Mahjuba, to God is its guide / Forgive him for what has passed and his time of heat. And enter him into the abode of peace / grant him the gift of contentment and security from the horror of the day of crowding, and grant him the highest paradise. He who is in it will win / in a difficult year, the building of it will be completed and God will complete its construction. O reader, pray to the one who built it / and with the pardon and forgiveness of God and the intercession of the best of people / make of it a place for reading the Sunnah to the public.” The hidden history behind it. This front was installed above a door in a corner known as the “Zawiya of Ibn Mahjouba,” adjacent to a cemetery. This building was demolished when the National Street was built around the year 1865. The person mentioned in the text of Al-Jabhiyya is Sheikh Abu Zakaria Yahya Ibn Mahjouba (died in 1017 AH / 1608 AD), who was a mufti, and who was also mentioned in a manuscript dating back to that period.
Sample Text
Leila Merabet "Jahbiyya Bab" in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;dz;Mus01;29;ar
