The Islamic Museum (Arabic: متحف الآثار الإسلامية, romanized: Matḥaf al-Āthār al-Islāmīyah; Hebrew: מוזיאון האסלאם) is a museum at Al Aqsa in the Old City section of Jerusalem. On display are exhibits from ten periods of Islamic history encompassing...
Al-Aqsa (; Arabic: المسجد الأقصى, romanized: al-Masjid al-Aqṣā), also known as the Haram al-Sharif, is the Islamic religious compound that encompasses the plateau of the Temple Mount, in the Old City of Jerusalem. It includes the Dome of the Rock,...
The Dung Gate (Hebrew: שער האשפות, romanized: Sha'ar Ha'ashpot), also known as Bab al-Maghariba (Arabic: باب المغاربة, romanized: Gate of the Maghrebis), Mughrabi Gate, Moroccan Gate or Silwan Gate, is one of the Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem....
The Temple Mount, a holy site in the Old City of Jerusalem, also known as the al-Ḥaram al-Sharīf or Al-Aqsa, contains twelve gates. One of the gates, Bab as-Sarai, is currently closed to the public but was open under Ottoman rule. There are also six...
The Temple Mount or al-Haram al-Sharif (Biblical Hebrew: הַר הַבַּיִת, romanized: Har hab-Bayiṯ, Arabic: الحَرَم الشَّرِيف, romanized: al-Ḥaram aš-Šarīf or الأَقْصَى, al-Aqṣā) is an elevated plateau in the Old City of Jerusalem that comprises the...
Samarra is a city in central Iraq, which served as the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate from 836 to 892. Founded by the caliph al-Mu'tasim, Samarra was briefly a major metropolis that stretched dozens of kilometers along the east bank of the Tigris,...
The Mughrabi Quarter, also known as the Moroccan Quarter or Maghrebi Quarter, was a historic neighbourhood in the southeast corner of the Old City of Jerusalem. Established in the late 12th century, it bordered the Western Wall of the Haram...
Ja'far ibn Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Mutawakkil ʿalā Allāh (Arabic: جعفر بن محمد بن هارون, romanized: Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Hārūn); March 822 – 11 December 861, commonly known by his regnal name al-Mutawwakil ala Allah (Arabic: المتوكل على الله,...
Moroccans in the Netherlands (Dutch: Marokkanen in Nederland; Arabic: المغاربة في هولندا, romanized: al-Maghāriba fī Hūlandā; Tamazight: Imaghrabiyen di Hollanda), also Moroccan Dutch (Marokkaanse Nederlanders) or Dutch Moroccans (Nederlandse...
Abū Isḥāq Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Rashīd (Arabic: أبو إسحاق محمد بن هارون الرشيد; October 796 – 5 January 842), better known by his regnal name al-Muʿtaṣim biʾllāh (المعتصم بالله, lit. 'He who seeks refuge in God'), was the eighth Abbasid caliph,...
