It was under his auspices that the construction of the minaret began. After Among the Western travelers, poets and writers who visited Kairouan, some of them leave impressions and testimonies sometimes tinged with emotion or admiration on the mosque. Oqba Ibn Nafi (en arabe : عقبة بن نافع (ʿOqba ibn Nāfiʿ)[note 1]), né en 622 à La Mecque (actuelle Arabie saoudite), et mort en 683 à Sidi Okba (actuelle Algérie)[1], est un gouverneur et général arabe au service du califat des Rachidoune sous le règne d'Omar, puis plus tard, le califat omeyyade sous les règnes de Muawiya Ier et Yazid Ier. selon les recommandations des projets correspondants. [83] Probably made by cabinetmakers of Kairouan (some researchers also refer to Baghdad), it consists of an assembly of more than 300 finely carved wood pieces with an exceptional ornamental wealth (vegetal and geometric patterns refer to the Umayyad and Abbasid models), among which about 90 rectangular panels carved with plenty of pine cones, grape leaves, thin and flexible stems, lanceolate fruits and various geometric shapes (squares, diamonds, stars, etc.). If one refers to the story of Al-Bakri, an Andalusian historian and geographer of the eleventh century, it is the mihrab which would be done by Uqba Ibn Nafi, the founder of Kairouan, whereas Lucien Golvin shares the view that it is not an old mihrab but hardly a begun construction which may serve to support marble panels and either goes back to work of Ziadet Allah I (817–838) or to those of Abul Ibrahim around the years 862–863. It is surrounded at its upper part by 139 lusterware tiles (with a metallic sheen), each one is 21.1 centimetres square and they are arranged on the diagonal in a chessboard pattern. Il meurt au côté de son principal rival, Abou al-Mouhajir Dinar. A legend says they could not count them without going blind. From the outside, the Great Mosque of Kairouan is a fortress-like building with its 1.90 metres thick massive ocher walls, a composite of well-worked stones with intervening courses of rubble stone and baked bricks. [46] Freed from its impurities, the water flows into an underground cistern supported by seven-metre-high pillars. Poser une question à Aymen_juve à propos de Grande Mosquée de Kairouan, En rapport avec des éléments que vous avez consultés. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the. Bâti initialement par le générale Okba Ibn NAfaa en 670, l’emplacement du « cantonnement » Al Qayrawân (ville fondée, agrandie et reconstruite entre le 8ème et le 9ème siècle)dans lequel il installa ses troupes dans la foulée d’une première offensive victorieuse, s’empressa d’y ériger un siège pour le gouvernement de la province ifriqiyenne et un oratoire en briques cures qui au 9ème siècle, après plusieurs réaménagement et à quelques détails près, se présenta sous l’apparence que nous connaissons aujourd’hui à la Grande Mosquée qui est considérée dans le Maghreb, comme l’ancêtre de toutes les Mosquées de la région aussi bien que l’un des plus important monuments islamiques et un chef-d’œuvre universel d’architecture. During this period, the Great Mosque of Kairouan was both a place of prayer and a centre for teaching Islamic sciences under the Maliki current. The maqsura, located near the minbar, consists of a fence bounding a private enclosure that allows the sovereign and his senior officials to follow the solemn prayer of Friday without mingling with the faithful. Selon une légende, l’un des soldats d'Oqba est tombé sur une coupe en or enfouie dans le sable. Ils vous colleront à la peau, au lieu d'une visité guidée ils vous conduiront droit vers les marchands de tapis qui leur donnent un pourcentage. [60], View of the gallery which precedes the prayer hall, One of the seventeen carved-wood doors of the prayer hall, Close view of the upper part of the main door of the prayer hall, View of the central nave of the prayer hall, View of two of the secondary naves of the prayer hall, View of the mihrab located in the middle of the qibla wall of the prayer hall, In the prayer hall, the 414 columns of marble, granite or porphyry[69] (among more than 500 columns in the whole mosque),[70] taken from ancient sites in the country such as Sbeitla, Carthage, Hadrumetum and Chemtou,[60] support the horseshoe arches. Cette histoire a conduit Kairouan à devenir un lieu de pèlerinage, puis une ville sainte (« la Mecque du Maghreb ») et la plus importante ville du Maghreb[7]. Nom complet : ʿOqba ibn Nāfiʿ ibn ʿAbd al-Qais al-Qurašī al-Fihrī'. For all these reasons, the mosque which once occupied the center of the medina when first built in 670 is now on the easternmost quarter abutting the city walls. In 836, Emir Ziyadat Allah I reconstructed the mosque once more:[21] this is when the building acquired, at least in its entirety, its current appearance. [35] Early in the twentieth century, the Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke describes his admiration for the impressive minaret: « Is there a more beautiful than this still preserved old tower, the minaret, in Islamic architecture? [50] There are stone blocks from the Roman period that bear Latin inscriptions. Oxford, 1977, Most of the works on which rests the reputation of the mosque are still conserved in situ while a certain number of them have joined the collections of the Raqqada National Museum of Islamic Art; Raqqada is located about ten kilometres southwest of Kairouan. L’association des imams de Kairouan a annoncé que la prière de l’absent sera faite pour les militaires tués lors du massacre survenus, lundi 29 juillet, à Jebel Chaambi. 1–38, History of Medieval Arabic and Western European domes, Great Mosque of Kairouan (discoverislamicart.org), Great Mosque of Kairouan – Kairouan, Tunisia, The Great Mosque (kairouan-cci2009.nat.tn). [16] With the gradual increase of the population of Kairouan and the consequent increase in the number of faithful, Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, Umayyad Caliph in Damascus, charged his governor Bishr ibn Safwan to carry out development work in the city, which included the renovation and expansion of the mosque around the years 724–728. The coating around them is decorated with blue plant motifs dating from the eighteenth century or the first half of the nineteenth century. Art Animation Comedy Cool Commercials Cooking Entertainment How To Music & Dance News & Events People & Stories Pets & Animals Science & Tech Sports Travel & Outdoors Video Games Wheels & … l’une des principales mosquées de Tunisie, est considérée comme le plus ancien et le plus prestigieux monument musulman au Maghreb. également orthographié Oqba ibn Nafe, Oqba ibn al-Nafia, ou Akbah. Other scrolls and calligraphic Qur'ans, as that known as the Hadinah's Qur'an, copied and illuminated by the calligrapher Ali ibn Ahmad al-Warraq for the governess of the Zirid prince Al-Muizz ibn Badis at about 1020 AD, were also in the library before being transferred to Raqqada museum. Oqba reprend son poste de commandement en 681, sous le règne du calife Yazid Ier[7],[8]. This collection is a unique source for studying the history and evolution of calligraphy of medieval manuscripts in the Maghreb, covering the period from the ninth to the eleventh century. Although it has existed for more than eleven centuries, all panels, with the exception of nine, are originals and are in a good state of conservation, the fineness of the execution of the minbar makes it a great masterpiece of Islamic wood carving referring to Paul Sebag. [26], The current state of the mosque can be traced back to the Aghlabid period—no element is earlier than the ninth century besides the mihrab—except for some partial restorations and a few later additions made in 1025 during the Zirid period,[27] 1248 and 1293–1294 under the reign of the Hafsids,[28] 1618 at the time of Muradid beys,[29] and in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.