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    Bab al-Faradis (Arabic: بَابُ الْفَرَادِيسِ, romanized: Bāb al-Farādīs; "The Gate of the Paradises") or Bab al-Amara is one of the seven ancient city-gates...
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    al-Hajjaj's death. He was buried in Damascus at the cemetery of Bab al-Saghir or Bab al-Faradis and Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz led the funeral prayers. Al-Walid...
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    located in the northwest corner of the city walls, between the Bab al-Faradis and the Bab al-Jabiyah. The citadel consists of a more or less rectangular...
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    Damascus (redirect from Al Shamie)
    Bab al-Faradis ("the gate of the orchards", or "of the paradise") Bab al-Salam ("the gate of peace"), all on the north boundary of the Old City Bab Tuma...
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    Bab al-Faraj (Arabic: بَاب الْفَرَج, romanized: Bāb al-Faraj or Bāb al-Faraǧ), meaning the Gate of Deliverance or Bab al-Faradis was one of the 9 main...
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    placed on the throne as a temporary measure Caliph Al-Musta'in Billah. Faraj was buried in Bab al-Faradis cemetery in Damascus. One of his wives was Khawand...
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    Bab al-Saghir (also called "Goristan-e-Ghariban"), dedicated to Jupiter. Bab al-Jabiyah (Gate of the Water Trough), dedicated to Mars. Bab al-Faradis (The...
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  • was buried in the cemetery of Bab al-Faradis. One of al-Burini's main bodies of work was Tarajim al-A'yan min Abna al-Zaman, a collection of 205 biographies...
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    Bab al-Faraj Clock Tower (Arabic: برج ساعة باب الفرج) is one of the main landmarks of Aleppo, Syria. It was built in 1898-1899 by the French architect...
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    Ghuta (redirect from Al-Ghutah)
    resources management in Syria The others being Hawrān, al-Bathaniyya, al-Jawlān, al-Biqāʿ and al-Hūla. Lehrman 1980, p. 190. Grehan 2007, p. 23. Taylor...
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    Apostle). The building is at the end of the Street Called Straight near the Bab Sharqi (Eastern Gate). Archaeological excavations in 1921 found the remains...
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    East Gate (Bab Sharqi) The Gate of Thomas (Bab Touma) The Jabiya Gate (Bab al-Jabiya) The Gate of Paradise (Bab al-Faradis) The Keisan Gate (Bab Kisan) The...
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  • indicate it was situated on the lower slopes of Mount Qasioun near the Bab al-Faradis gate of Damascus. It overlooked the orchards of the Ghouta plain that...
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  • Al-Mujahidiyah Madrasa (Arabic: الْمَدْرَسَة الْمُجَاهِدِيَّة, romanized: al-Madrasah al-Mujāhidīyah) is a madrasah complex in Damascus, Syria. Built in...
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  • Records. The structure cost $40 million to construct and is owned by Shaker al Samman. The restaurant has a 54,000 sq-m dining area, 2,500 sq-m kitchen,...
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    world, al-Kamil fi at-Tarikh (The Complete History). Ibn al-Athir died in 1232/1233, and was buried in a cemetery in Mosul, at the district of Bab Sinjar...
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    Damascus and is located in the Christian quarter of Damascus, 100 m west of Bab Sharqi. Syriac Catholic Church Catholic Church in Syria Diana Darke, Syria...
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  • the walled city of Damascus, bordering the Bab al-Salam gate to the south and contiguous with the al-Faradis neighborhood to the west. It was built around...
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  • al-Nuʿmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥayyūn al-Tamīmiyy (Arabic: النعمان بن محمد بن منصور بن أحمد بن حيون التميمي, generally known as al-Qāḍī...
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    orchards. They attacked the suburbs of Faradis at first, they also began to build their siege position opposite Bab al-Jabiya, where the Barada did not run...
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  • buried in the martyrs cemetery in Bab Harb, Baghdad. A [Useful] Extract from the continuation of the Ta'rikh Baghdad (al-Mustafad min Dhayl Ta'rikh Baghdad)...
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  • historians died in 24 January 571/1176 at the age of 71 and was buried at the Bab al-Saghir cemetery, next to his father and near to the grave of the Caliph...
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