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2. Great Mosque of Kairouan - Wikipedia

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   Established by the Arab general Uqba ibn Nafi in the year 50 AH (670AD/CE) at the founding of the city of Kairouan, the mosque occupies an area of over 9,000 square metres (97,000 sq ft). It is one of the oldest places of worship in the Islamic world , and is a model for all later mosques in the Maghreb . [ 2 ]

3. Muslim conquest of the Maghreb - Wikipedia

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   The Arab conqueror and general Uqba Ibn Nafi founded the Great Mosque of Kairouan (also known as the Mosque of Uqba)—the oldest and most important mosque in North Africa, [7] —in Kairouan, Tunisia, 670 AD. The years 665 to 689 saw a new Arab invasion of North Africa.

4. History of early Islamic Tunisia - Wikipedia

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   Yet Zuhair b. Qais, the deputy of the fallen leader Uqba ibn Nafi, enlisted Zanata Berber tribes from Cyrenaica to fight for the cause of Islam, and in 686 managed to overrun, defeat, and terminate the kingdom newly formed by Kusaila. [7] [8] [9] Mosque of Uqba, or the Great Mosque of Kairouan, commenced by Uqba ibn Nafi circa 670.

5. File:Grande Mosquée de Kairouan, vue d'ensemble.jpg

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   Founded in 670 AD by the Arab general Uqba ibn Nafi, it dates, in its present form, from the 9th century. Besides the fact of being the oldest mosque in the Muslim West, the Great Mosque of Kairouan is a remarkable example of North African Islamic architecture.

6. Uqba ibn Nafi - Wikipedia

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   ʿUqba ibn Nāfiʿ ibn ʿAbd al-Qays al-Fihrī al-Qurashī (Arabic: عقبة بن نافع بن عبد القيس الفهري القرشي, romanized: ʿUqba ibn Nāfiʿ ibn ʿAbd al-Qays al-Fihrī), also simply known as Uqba ibn Nafi, was an Arab general serving the Rashidun Caliphate since the reign of Umar and later the Umayyad Caliphate during the reigns of Mu'awiya I and Yazid I, leading ...

7. Sidi Okba Mosque - Wikipedia

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   Sidi Okba Mosque (Arabic: مسجد سيدي عقبة, Masjid Sīdī ʻUqbah) is a historic mosque in Algeria, located in the village of Sidi Okba, near Biskra.The mausoleum was first established in 686 to house the remains of Uqba ibn Nafi, a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and one of the prominent commanders of the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb, making it one of the oldest Muslim ...

8. Umayyad rule in North Africa - Wikipedia

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   Kairouan was founded in 670 by the Umayyad general Uqba ibn Nafi as the capital city of the new province. Uqba chose the site for its first mosque, and the Great Mosque of Kairouan was constructed on the same year. Ten years after the Great Mosque of Damascus was completed, the Umayyad caliph ordered the Kairouan Mosque to be enlarged in 724 to ...

9. Architecture of Algeria - Wikipedia

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   The Mosque of Sidi Uqba, in the village of Sidi Okba (near Biskra), is reputedly the oldest Islamic monument in Algeria, as it contains the tomb of Uqba ibn Nafi, dated to 686. The mosque itself, a simple hypostyle structure similar to early mosques in Medina, was probably modified and renovated in later periods, including by the Zirids in the ...