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min·a·ret
/ ˌminəˈret/
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n.
a tall slender tower, typically part of a mosque, with a balcony from which a muezzin calls Muslims to prayer.
DERIVATIVES:
min·a·ret·ed
adj.
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 "Arab News (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)")
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Misunderstanding the minaret.
Newspaper article from: Arab News (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia); 12/12/2009; 700+ words
; ...Initiative Against Minarets", which is initiated...significance of the minaret. The key idea lays...wrongly seen as the minaret's primary function, even before minarets came into existence...build monumental minarets, sometimes four...premodern era, the minaret's signification...
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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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Minaret ban wins Swiss support.
News Wire article from: Aljazeera.net; 11/29/2009; 700+ words
; ...construction of new minarets is not a feasible means...painful for us is not the minaret ban, but the symbol...Supporters of the ban say minarets represent the growth...their mosques and their minarets it will follow on that...leaders have opposed a minaret ban, saying it would...
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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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 "Daily News Egypt (Egypt)")
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Switzerland votes to ban new minarets; Egypt's Mufti deems it an 'insult'.
Newspaper article from: Daily News Egypt (Egypt); 11/30/2009; 700+ words
; ...painful for us is not the minaret ban, but the symbol...candles and cardboard minarets led a mock funerary...wearing a burka with the minarets drawn as weapons on...erected around 12 mini-minarets made out of recycled...International said the minaret ban is a "violation...
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Swiss brace for effects of vote banning minarets; Swiss brace for effects of new minaret ban ; Leaders try to reassure Muslims that vote isn't a rejection of their culture
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 12/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...of vote banning minarets; Swiss brace for effects of new minaret ban ; Leaders try...construction of minarets, the prayer towers...construction of minarets, leading to the...Turkey -- that the minaret ban was "not a...
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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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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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Kodja Mimar Sinan
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...appearances led to the development of slim, pencil like, balconied minarets that gave the 16th-century Stambul skyline its magnificent...assembly areas flanked by small-domed side halls and massive minarets. According to a contemporary biographer, the poet Mustafa...
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