Qayrawan
القيروان
Qayrawan, the garrison-city of Ifriqiya; Uqba ibn Nafi' al-Fihri laid it out on a thicket-site of trees unapproachable for beasts, snakes and deadly vermin — praying to his Lord until all that was removed, the very beasts fleeing with their young — then built, the people building houses and dwellings with him, and built its congregational mosque, having seen in a dream a man giving the call to prayer where its minaret stood, so he built the minarets on the man's station; and Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath al-Khuza'i repaired the city and its mosque in his governorship for Abu al-Abbas.
At a glance
- Era
- The Umayyad Period
- Region
- Maghreb
- Review
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People and things also explored
Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath al-Khuza'i· الأغلب بن سالم التميمي· Abu Ja'far al-Mansur· حريش· إبراهيم بن الأغلب· Maslama ibn Mukhallad al-Ansari· Mu'awiya ibn Khudayj al-Kindi· Uqba ibn Nafi' al-Fihri
Sources
- Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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