Author
Al-Omari, Amal Ahmed Hassan, Morsi, Mahmoud Morsi, Siraj El-Din, Ahmed Mohamed
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Royal Danish Library
Library Asset ID
ISSN: 2356-9654
Record ID
cdi_almandumah_primary_1277227
Library Location
DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
Notes
The minaret was given several names, the first of which was (the minaret) to indicate the place designated for raising the call to prayer, and (the lighthouse) to end a prayer with a lamp during the night prayers to inform those who were not able to hear the call to prayer that the time for prayer had come. The construction of the minaret came later than the construction of the mosque. This happened at the end of the Umayyad period, when the first mosques of Islam were without minarets until the end of the 1st century AH/7th century AD. The Holy Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, and his companions, may God be pleased with them, used to pray without the call to prayer until the Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, ordered Bilal to call the caller to prayer, and he used to give the call to prayer from the highest rooftop adjacent to the mosque. The tops of minarets are among the most important features that distinguished their styles in general, as they began in the Fatimid era with a dome-shaped top, and in the Ayyubid era until the beginning of the Mamluk Bahri era in the shape of an incense burner, then they took the shape of a five-pointed sector or what we know as an inverted oligarch shape, all the way to the shape of a pencil in the Ottoman era... and each of the previous shapes was taken in its era as a general pattern followed by the majority of the tops of the minarets of this era. However, the Muslim architect from the Mamluk Bahri era until the Ottoman era had decided to be creative in changing the typical shape of this element, so he invented another shape for these peaks. So he created a different peak that did not have a single head. Rather, it increased to two, four, and five heads, so they represented atypical models among the tops of the minarets of their era. The minarets were divided in the research accordingly into two-headed, four-headed, and five-headed minarets, and also what was actually existing and those that were studied were identified. The research will be accompanied by an architectural descriptive study of these minarets and their religious symbolism.
Görüntüle
Majallat al-ʻimārah wa-al-funūn wa-al-ʻulūm al-insānīyah, 2022 (33), p.554-572
