Kupferschmidt, Uri M.

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ʿAlamī family

by Kupferschmidt, Uri M.

fromEncyclopaedia of Islam, THREE

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The ʿAlamī family is a prominent and longstanding Muslim family of Jerusalem. Though often associated with an ashrāf family from Fez by the same name, or with a certain ʿAlamī who accompanied Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn in the reconquest of Jerusalem in 583/1187, recent research traces the fam…

al-Aqṣā mosque

by Kupferschmidt, Uri M.

fromEncyclopaedia of Islam, THREE

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Al-Aqṣā mosque (al-masjid al-Aqṣā) refers specifically to the large mosque on the southwestern corner of al-Ḥaram al-Sharīf in Jerusalem, but the name is also used for the entire religious compound, including the Dome of the Rock. Aqṣā is the superlative form of the Arabic adjec…