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The Dar al-Muwaqqit of the al-Qarawiyyin Mosque (marked by the double-arched window overlooking the courtyard). A Dar al-Muwaqqit (Arabic: دار المؤقت), or muvakkithane in Turkish, is a room or structure accompanying a mosque which was used by the muwaqqit or timekeeper, an officer charged with maintaining the correct times of prayer and communicating them to the muezzin (the person ...
The main building consists mostly of an interior prayer hall as well as a smaller courtyard to the north which is enclosed by extensions of the prayer hall. The prayer hall is built in a hypostyle format and is divided into nine "naves" by rows of horseshoe arches running perpendicular to the southeastern qibla wall. The arches, in turn, form ...
The muezzin (/ m (j) u ˈ ɛ z ɪ n /; [1] Arabic: مُؤَذِّن) is the person who proclaims the call to the daily prayer five times a day (Fajr prayer, Zuhr prayer, Asr prayer, Maghrib prayer and Isha prayer) at a mosque from the minaret. [2] [3] The muezzin plays an important role in ensuring an accurate prayer schedule for the Muslim ...
The Arabic name of the university [a] means "University of the People from Kairouan". [b] Factors such as the provenance of Fatima al-Fihriya's family in Tunisia, [16] the presence of the letter Qāf – a voiceless uvular plosive which has no equivalent in European languages – the ويّي triphthong in the university's name, and the French colonization of Morocco have resulted in a number ...
Loudspeakers are sometimes also used inside mosques to deliver sermons or for prayer. [3] Electrically amplified adhans have become commonplace in countries such as Turkey and Morocco, [4] whereas in others such as the Netherlands only 7 to 8% of all mosques employ loudspeakers for the call to prayer. [5]
The mihrab, a niche symbolizing the qibla (direction of prayer), is set in the middle of the qibla wall (the southern wall) of the prayer hall and is a central focus of its layout. The prayer hall has a "T"-plan, in that the central nave aligned with the mihrab and another transverse (i.e. perpendicular) aisle running along the qibla wall are ...
'mosque of the cobblers'), is the largest Friday mosque within the historic Andalusian medina of Rabat (i.e. the district north of the Andalusian walls, along Avenue Hassan II today) in Morocco. The mosque is located at the intersection of the streets of Souk Sebbat and Rue Bab Chellah ("Street of the Chellah Gate"). [1]
The Ben Youssef Mosque (also known by its English spelling as the "Ibn Yusuf Mosque"; Arabic: مسجد ابن يوسف), is a mosque in the Medina quarter of Marrakesh, Morocco, named after the Almoravid emir Ali ibn Yusuf. It is arguably the oldest and most important mosque in Marrakesh.