At a glance
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
In time
Overview
Nur al-Din Mahmud ibn Zangi ordered a minbar for the Holy City in 1169; Saladin brought it into al-Aqsa in 1187, where it stood until an arson attack destroyed it in 1969. 1
What happened
The minbar was a masterpiece of Syrian woodwork, made by Nur al-Din's order for Jerusalem, which he hoped to regain from the Crusaders. When Saladin took the city in 1187 he reconsecrated the mosque, renewed the decoration of the whole qibla wall including the mihrab, and installed this minbar. It stood in the mosque for eight centuries until a deliberately set fire destroyed it in 1969, before it had been fully studied. 1
Connections
- Occurred at
- Masjid Al-Aqsa
- Had participant
- Nur al-Din Mahmud ibn Zangi
- During the reign of
- al-Mustanjid bi'llah Yusuf ibn al-Muqtafi
People and things also explored
Nūr al-Dīn besieges al-Karak· Nur al-Din Takes the Fortress of Safita from the Franks in 561· Nur al-Din Madrasa, Damascus· Ending the Ubaydid Khutba and Restoring the Abbasid Khutba in Egypt· Arson at al-Aqsa Mosque (1969)· The Aqsa Mosque earthquake and its rebuilding under the Abbasids· The Fatimid rebuilding of al-Aqsa after the 1033 earthquake· Restoration of al-Aqsa's northern porch
Sources
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 6 p. 735
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Nur al-Din's minbar made for al-Aqsa”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/aqsa-minbar-nur-al-din/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.
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