The Places of Pilgrimage
| Name of text: | The Places of Pilgrimage |
| Author of text: | 'Ali of Herat |
| Date of text: | c. 1173 |
| Date of person in text: | d. 1215 |
| Name of structure in text: | Al-Aqsa/Aska Mosque |
| Type of structure in text: | mosque |
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| Country in text: | Israel |
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| City in text: | Jerusalem |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | Roof, porticoes |
| Description of mosaic in text: | In this Mosque is the Mihrab of the Khalif ‘Omar; the Franks have not done it any damage. On the roof I read the following inscription […] This inscription, as well as the porticoes are all done over with mosaics of gold, and these the Franks have not touched or in any way damaged. |
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| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | Yes |
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| Bibliography: | Le Strange, Guy, trans., Palestine under the Moslems (London: Alexander P. Watt, 1890), A Description of Syria and the Holy Land from AD 650 to 1500, translated from the works of the Mediaeval Arab Geographers, p. 102
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