{
 "id": "building/kahf-jibril-qasyun",
 "class": "building",
 "slug": "kahf-jibril-qasyun",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الكهف بقاسيون (كهف جبريل)",
  "en": "the Cave of Qasyun (Jibril's Cave)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مسجد بالكهف على جبل قاسيون بدمشق ابتدأ ببنائه أبو الفرج محمد بن عبد الله بن المعلم سنة سبعين وثلثمائة بعد أن رأى في النوم جبريل يأمره أن يبني مسجداً يصلّى فيه ويُذكر اسم الله؛ سماه كهف جبريل، وهو مسجد فسيح مفروش بالرخام الأبيض وأعمدته كلها رخام، ولا يخلو من سكنى الصلحاء معموراً بالذكر {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 209}.",
  "en": "The mosque raised inside the cave of Mount Qasyun by Abu al-Faraj Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn al-Mu'allim beginning in 370, after a dream in which Jibril bade him build a mosque where God's name would be remembered — he called it Jibril's Cave; a broad prayer-hall floored in white marble, its columns all marble, never empty of the pious at remembrance {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 209}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "objects"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "levant-iraq"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/abbasid-fragmentation"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "mosque",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "مسالك الأبصار (ط 1924) ص 209",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-geo-umari-6"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/umari-masalik-1924"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "مسجد في كهف على جبل قاسيون في [[place/damascus|دمشق]]، يسمى كهف جبريل. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 209}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "بناؤه",
     "markdown": "ابتدأ ببنائه أبو الفرج محمد بن عبد الله بن المعلم سنة 370هـ. وتذكر الرواية أنه رأى في النوم جبريل يأمره أن يبني مسجداً يصلى فيه ويذكر فيه اسم الله. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 209}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وصفه",
     "markdown": "وصفه العمري بأنه مسجد فسيح، مفروش بالرخام الأبيض، وأعمدته كلها من الرخام. وأضاف أنه لا يخلو من سكنى الصلحاء، معموراً بالذكر. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 209}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ما يحتاج إلى مصدر",
     "markdown": "الرؤيا خبر منقول عن العمري وحده، ويحتاج إلى مصدر إضافي."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/kahf-jibril-qasyun",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "A mosque in a cave on Mount Qasyun in [[place/damascus|Damascus]], called the Cave of Gabriel. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 209}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Its construction",
     "markdown": "Abu al-Faraj Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn al-Mu'allim began building it in 370 AH. The report says that he saw Gabriel in a dream, ordering him to build a mosque in which God would be prayed to and remembered. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 209}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Its description",
     "markdown": "Al-Umari describes it as a spacious mosque, paved with white marble, with all its columns of marble. He adds that it is never without the presence of the righteous, and is kept full of remembrance. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 209}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "What needs a source",
     "markdown": "The dream is a report transmitted by al-Umari alone, and it needs an additional source."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/kahf-jibril-qasyun",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 2,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "place/damascus",
   "type": "located_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "sources": [
    "source/umari-masalik-1924"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "building/qasr-shams-al-muluk",
  "building/umayyad-mosque",
  "event/al-adil-takes-damascus-592",
  "event/battle-of-marj-rahit",
  "event/building-umayyad-mosque",
  "event/conquest-damascus-atsiz-468",
  "event/conquest-of-damascus",
  "event/damascus-partition-590"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}