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Islamic Museum, Jerusalem

Islamic Museum, Jerusalem is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Islamic Museum, Jerusalem rather than just read about it. In short: The Islamic Museum (Arabic: متحف الآثار الإسلامية, romanized: Matḥaf al-Āthār al-Islāmīyah; Hebrew: מוזיאון האסלאם) is a museum at Al Aqsa in the Old City section of Jerusalem. On display are exhibits from ten periods of Islamic history encompassing several Muslim regions.

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Reference excerpt

The Islamic Museum (Arabic: متحف الآثار الإسلامية, romanized: Matḥaf al-Āthār al-Islāmīyah; Hebrew: מוזיאון האסלאם) is a museum at Al Aqsa in the Old City section of Jerusalem. On display are exhibits from ten periods of Islamic history encompassing several Muslim regions. The museum is west of al-Aqsa Mosque, across a courtyard.

History The building was originally constructed by the Knights Templar, who used it as an annex to their headquarters established at the former Al-Aqsa Mosque. Following the Muslim reconquest of Jerusalem, the mosque was restored in 1194 CE. The annex building served an assembly hall for the Fakhr al-Din Mohammad School (al-Fakhriya), a madrasa built by al-Mansur Qalawun in 1282 CE, during the Mamluk era. Most of the other buildings of the al-Fakhriya madrasa complex – considered part of the al-Aqsa Mosque – were demolished by the Israeli Army in 1969.

The building also housed the Mosque of the Maghrebis (Jāmiʿ al-Maghāribah, جامع المغاربة), also known as the "Mosque of the Malikis", as most Maghrebi scholars follow the Maliki school of jurisprudence. The Maghrebi mosque bordered the now-vanished Maghrebi Quarter, a neighborhood that was completely razed by the Israelis in 1967. The museum was established by the Supreme Muslim Council in 1923. Shadia Yousef Touqan was the head planner of the site. By 1927, the Mosque of the Maghrebis was converted into the Islamic Museum. Khader Salameh was a notable head curator of the museum.

Exhibits The Islamic Museum displays large copper soup kettles used in the Haseki Sultan Imaret, a soup kitchen, built through a donation by Hürrem Sultan, the wife of Suleiman the Magnificent, dating back to the 16th century, as well as stained glass windows, wooden panels, ceramic tiles and iron doors from the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent. Also on display are a cannon used to announce the breaking of Ramadan, a large collection of weapons, a large wax tree trunk, the charred remains of the Minbar of Saladin (built by Nur ad-Din Zangi in the 1170s and destroyed in an arson attack in 1969), and the blood-stained clothing of 17 Palestinians killed in the rioting on the Temple Mount in 1990.

Qur'an manuscripts The museum has 600 copies of the Qur'an donated to the al-Aqsa Mosque during the Umayyad, Abbasid, Fatimid, Ayyubid, Mamluk, Ottoman eras by caliphs, sultans, emirs, ulama and private individuals. Each differ in size, calligraphy and ornamentation. One is a hand-written Qur'an whose transcription is attributed to the great-great-grandson of Muhammad. Another is written in Kufic script, dating back to the 8th-9th century. A 30-part Moroccan rabʿah (multi-volume manuscript) was bequeathed in 1344 by Sultan Abu al-Hasan al-Marini of Morocco; it is the only manuscript remaining from three collections that the sultan dispatched to the mosques of the three holy cities in Islam — Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem. In addition, there is a very large Qur'an, measuring 100 by 90 centimetres (3.3 ft × 3.0 ft), dating back to the 14th century.

Environs It is in the same southwestern corner of the compound as the al-Fakhariyya Minaret. To the north of the museum, there is Moors' Gate (Maghrebi Gate / Morocco Gate). The southern part of the museum is right next to the al-Aqsa Library. The small courtyard east of the museum has the Dome of Yusuf Agha and many column capitals. Farther east, on the other side of the courtyard, is al-Aqsa Mosque's western side.

See also Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo (Egypt)

References

External links Media related to Islamic Museum, al-Aqsa at Wikimedia Commons Islamic Museum (unofficial)

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Islamic Museum, Jerusalem

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Islamic Museum, Jerusalem claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Islamic Museum, Jerusalem before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Islamic Museum, Jerusalem ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Islamic Museum, Jerusalem

In research: Islamic Museum, Jerusalem appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Islamic Museum, Jerusalem in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Islamic Museum, Jerusalem is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Buildings and structures completed in 1194, History museums in Palestine, Islam in Jerusalem, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Islamic Museum, Jerusalem outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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