Kitab akhbar Makka, Book of Reports about Mecca
| Name of text: | Kitab akhbar Makka, Book of Reports about Mecca |
| Author of text: | Al-Azraqi |
| Date of text: | 9th century, before 865 |
| Date of person in text: | 9the century |
| Name of structure in text: | Masjid al-Haram, Mecca |
| Type of structure in text: | holy area |
| Date of structure in text | 754 |
| Century of structure 1: | 8 AD |
| Century of structure 2: | |
| Country in text: | Saudi Arabia |
| Region in text: | |
| City in text: | Mecca |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | Wall |
| Description of mosaic in text: | Two pious mosaic inscriptions commemorating al-Mansur, founder of Baghdad, who enlarged and decorated the area, executed in black on a gold ground. ‘The first house appointed to Me was the one at Bakka’, Koran, 3.96 is one of two inscriptions. |
| Mosaic date in text: | 8 AD |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | Yes |
| Colour descriptions in text: | black |
| Bibliography: | Al-Azraqi, Kitab akhbar Makka, Book of Reports about Mecca, ed. by Ferdinand Wustenfeld, Die Chroniken der Stadt Mekka, Bd. 1 (Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1858), pp. 309-12 See also: Alain George, ‘Calligraphy, Colour and Light in the Blue Qur’an’, Journal of Qur’anic Studies, 11.1 (2009), p. 98, and n. 114 and 115 on p. 122. |
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