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 "id": "building/jami-qayrawan",
 "class": "building",
 "slug": "jami-qayrawan",
 "label": {
  "ar": "جامع القيروان",
  "en": "Great Mosque of Qayrawan"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "جامع القيروان الأعظم في موضع يسمى السماط الكبير وسط الأسواق؛ رآه المقدسي نحو 375هـ فعدّه أكبر من جامع ابن طولون، بأعمدة من الرخام وأرض مفروشة بالرخام وناره من الرخام ومزاريبه من الرصاص، وله أبواب: باب السماط وباب الصرافين وباب الرهادئة وباب الفضوليين وباب الماذنة وباب الصباغين وباب الحواريين وباب سوق الخميس وباب الميضاة وباب الخاصة في التمارين {cite:ahsan-al-taqasim pp. 180-181}.",
  "en": "The Great Mosque of Qayrawan, on the Simat al-Kabir amid the markets; al-Muqaddasi saw it c. 375 AH and reckoned it bigger than Ibn Tulun's mosque — marble columns, marble paving, a marble brazier and lead gutters, with named gates: Bab al-Sarraf in, Bab al-Rahadiyya, Bab al-Mi'da and Bab al-Khassa {cite:ahsan-al-taqasim pp. 180-181}."
 },
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  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "maghreb"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/umayyad"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 670.0006844767518,
  "latest": 671.0000205342708
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "0670",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "historical",
   "note": "أسسه عقبة بن نافع مع اختطاط القيروان ورمّه الأغالبة؛ التاريخ يحتاج مصدراً ثانياً."
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "kind": "mosque",
  "built": {
   "edtf": "0670",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "historical",
   "note": "أسسه عقبة بن نافع مع اختطاط القيروان ورمّه الأغالبة؛ التاريخ يحتاج مصدراً ثانياً."
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "المقدسي، أحسن التقاسيم في معرفة الأقاليم (de Goeje) ص 180-181",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-geo-ahsan-2"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/ahsan-al-taqasim"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "جامع القيروان الأعظم في موضع يسمى السماط الكبير، وسط الأسواق، في مدينة [[place/qayrawan|القيروان]]. {cite:ahsan-al-taqasim pp. 180-181}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وصف المقدسي",
     "markdown": "رآه المقدسي نحو سنة 375هـ وعدّه أكبر من جامع ابن طولون. {cite:ahsan-al-taqasim pp. 180-181}\n\nأعمدته من الرخام، وأرضه مفروشة بالرخام، وصحنه من الرخام، ومزاريبه من الرصاص. {cite:ahsan-al-taqasim pp. 180-181}\n\nوله أبواب، منها باب السماط وباب الصرافين وباب الرهادئة وباب الفضوليين وباب الماذنة وباب الصباغين وباب الحواريين وباب سوق الخميس وباب الميضاة وباب الخاصة. {cite:ahsan-al-taqasim pp. 180-181}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "التأسيس",
     "markdown": "تذكر بيانات المتحف أن عقبة بن نافع أسسه مع اختطاط القيروان، وأن الأغالبة رمّوه، ويؤرخ تأسيسه نحو سنة 670م. هذا التاريخ يحتاج إلى مصدر إضافي."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/jami-qayrawan",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "The great mosque of al-Qayrawan stands on a site called the Great Market, in the middle of the markets, in the city of [[place/qayrawan|al-Qayrawan]]. {cite:ahsan-al-taqasim pp. 180-181}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Al-Maqdisi's description",
     "markdown": "Al-Maqdisi saw it around 375 AH and counted it larger than the mosque of Ibn Tulun. {cite:ahsan-al-taqasim pp. 180-181}\n\nIts columns are of marble, its floor is paved with marble, its courtyard is of marble, and its gutters are of lead. {cite:ahsan-al-taqasim pp. 180-181}\n\nIt has doors, among them the Gate of the Market, the Gate of the Money-changers, the Gate of the Pilgrims, the Gate of the Idlers, the Gate of the Minaret, the Gate of the Dyers, the Gate of the Disciples, the Gate of the Thursday Market, the Gate of the Ablutions and the Gate of the Elite. {cite:ahsan-al-taqasim pp. 180-181}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Founding",
     "markdown": "The museum's data says that Uqba ibn Nafi founded it along with the laying out of al-Qayrawan, that the Aghlabids rebuilt it, and it dates its founding to about 670 CE. This date needs an additional source."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/jami-qayrawan",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 2,
 "contemporaries": [],
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   "to": "place/qayrawan",
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   "sources": [
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  "event/death-of-al-aghab",
  "event/founding-of-qayrawan",
  "event/ibn-al-ashath-siege-qayrawan",
  "event/ibrahim-abbasiyya-founding",
  "place/qayrawan"
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
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 }
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