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minaret
A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
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minaret. Tall, slender tower (circular, rectangular, or polygonal on plan), usually attached to a
mosque, with one or more projecting balconies from which Muslims are called to prayer.
Bibliography
Bloom (1989);
Hilenbrand (1994);
Jane Turner (1996)
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Iraq fears Mosul minaret's graceful bow may become a tumble
News Wire article from: AP Online; 9/29/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...reasons for the tilt of the Nurid mosque's minaret, and fear that without quick restoration...Consultancy Bureau is formulating a plan for the minaret - known as al-Hadba, ``the humped...Italian company finished restoring the minaret - broke underground pipes, allowing sewage...
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Swiss move to ban minarets as 'symbols of Islamic power'
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/14/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...wing campaign to ban minarets from all mosques in...Switzerland's "stop minaret" movement is backed...its approval for the minaret and score an important...construction of mosques with minarets in major cities such...inauguration of a mosque with a minaret in the small town of...
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 "The Kurdish Globe (Erbil, Iraq)")
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Historic Erbil Minaret to be rescued: Czech company takes responsibility for the minaret project.
Newspaper article from: The Kurdish Globe (Erbil, Iraq); 6/30/2008; 700+ words
; ...infrastructural problems with ErbilAEs minaret. oWe approached the Council of Ministers...documents about the [problems] with the minaret. [With their consent], a Czech company...Three problems were discovered with the minaret, according to Hussein. He explained...
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Shi'ite minarets reclaim skyline; Target of bans, Sunni militants.(PAGE ONE)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 7/7/2007; 700+ words
; ...their mosques. The minarets also provide a grim...construction of a 125-foot minaret costing $40,000...the construction of minarets at Shi'ite mosques...Mr. Hashem said. Minarets are not required on...through prayer, but the minaret is a powerful psychological...
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 "Dar Al Hayat, International ed. (Beirut, Lebanon)")
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The Minarets and the Hijab.
Newspaper article from: Dar Al Hayat, International ed. (Beirut, Lebanon); 11/15/2009; 700+ words
; ...construction of minarets is banned. The...over building a minaret in the village of...building of the minaret. The dispute over the right to build minarets brings to mind the...Muslims to build minarets, despite the objections...and said that the minaret was not an essential...
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5th minaret planned for Mount
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 9/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...walls, said the planned minaret was the brainchild of...next year. Four other minarets exist on the Temple...construction work on the minaret - which is estimated...to the four existing minarets is completed. He added...for the planned fifth minaret, just north of the...
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Tensions on the rise: rarely is there a church without a bell tower in Switzerland. Now other religious communities are demanding the same privilege: Muslims are fighting for the right to build minarets on top of mosques. This has been the cause of a heated debate, due to peak on November 29 when Swiss voters will decide how far freedom of religion should go.(POLITICS)
Magazine article from: Swiss News; 11/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...national referendum if minarets should be forbidden...of religion The minaret-ban initiative...the fight against minarets. "A minaret has a political...mosques come with a minaret, a symbol for...that prohibiting minarets does not impact...
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In volatile Iraq, Shiite mosques and minarets increasingly targeted.(WORLD)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 3/3/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...to do it," Hashem said. Minarets originally served as watchtowers...speakers are affixed to the minarets of most mosques, and announcers...Mosques are not required to have minarets, but they have become a symbol...who stood admiring the new minaret outside the Ahelalbayate Mosque...
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Minaret Reveals Division in Austrian Town; After Decades Spent Side by Side, Muslim Turks and Catholic Tiroleans Work Toward Understanding
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/12/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...been tested lately by the raising of a minaret next to a mosque despite residents' objections...organization announced plans to build the minaret. After heated debate, Opperer gave the...secretary of the group that built the minaret, invited non-Muslims to celebrate Iftar...
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Swiss nationalists force popular vote on banning Muslim call-to-prayer minarets
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 7/9/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...construction of minarets where Muslims issue...They argue that the minaret is a symbol of political...for constructing a minaret in Winterthur near...traditional mosques and minarets in European countries...that the anti-minaret initiative would...t really need minarets, the ...
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Minaret
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...mosques in Arabia had no minaret, and the first towers...expressly for the call. Minarets have been designed...thin, cylindrical minarets with conical peaks...not always climb the minaret to call for prayers; minarets are often outfitted...
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minaret
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
minaret , tower, used in...specifically built as minarets were the four low...modern times; the minaret of Giralda in Seville...standing conical minaret surrounded by a spiral...in the octagonal minarets of the two 15th...
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mosque
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...sultan, or governor prays; a minaret , a tower, usually built at...pointed arch flanked by slender minarets, represents the climax of...half domes, buttresses, and minarets and used Persian tiles and...onion-shaped domes, round minarets, and great portals with pointed...
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Ibn Tulun Mosque
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...opposite the prayer hall, stands the minaret (tower), the mosque's most distinctive...domed edifice, and reconstructed the minaret, which had also fallen into disrepair...work was soon begun. See also mihrab; minaret; mosque; qur ʾ an. Bibliography...
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Giralda
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...of Seville, Spain. It was built (1163-84) to serve as minaret to the main mosque of Seville, on the site of which the cathedral...superstructure on the simple square Moorish tower. The original square minaret, with an interior ramp, is 197 ft (60 m) high; the superstructure...
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