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Qasr al-Kharana, one of the Umayyad desert castles located in present-day Jordan. The desert castles or qasrs are often called Umayyad desert castles, since the vast majority of these fortified palaces or castles were built by the Umayyad dynasty in their province of Bilad ash-Sham, with a few Abbasid exceptions.
Qasr al-Muwaqqar and Qasr al-Mushash: Jordan: Qasr al-Muwaqqar (Arabic: قصر الموقر), and Qasr al-Mushash (Arabic: قصر المشاش), were built in 723 AD, is the ruins of an Umayyad complex, the Qasr al-Muwaqqar, a qasr-type fortified palace also known as a desert castle. The original castles are mostly destroyed. [14] Qasr Bayir ...
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The Kuwait Red Fort (Arabic: القصر الأحمر, romanized: al-Qaṣr al-ʾAḥmar) is a historic palace and museum that lies about 32 kilometres west of Kuwait City in Al-Jahra. The fort was the location of the Battle of Jahra in 1920. [1]
Jawharat al-Tawhid (Arabic: جوهرة التوحيد, lit. ' The Gem of Monotheism ') is a popular didactic poem on the Ash'ari creed , [ 1 ] consisting of one hundred and forty-four (144) rajaz verses, authored by the Egyptian Maliki scholar Ibrahim al-Laqqani (d. 1041/1631).
Al-Gawhara Palace. Al-Gawhara Palace (Arabic: قصر الجوهرة Qaṣr al-Gawhara), also known as Bijou Palace, is a palace and museum in Cairo, Egypt. The palace is situated south of the Mosque of Muhammad Ali in the Cairo Citadel. It was commissioned by Muhammad Ali Pasha in 1814.
In the 1960s, Zawiyat al-Qsur itself was "an imposing castle ruin" on a hill, but it has since been totally subsumed by a modern farm and only a few blocks remain visible. [1] Three hundred metres to the south is a second structure, called Qasr Sidi al-Khadri. It was a two-story farmhouse surrounding a small courtyard, built of ashlar masonry ...
1 Individual qusur and places named after a qasr. 2 Particular types of qusur. ... Kasbah/alcazaba, from al-qasbah: fortress, citadel, or by extension, medina quarter;