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Great Mosque of al-Nuri

الجامع الكبير النوري

Mosul

A mosque in Mosul, dated to 1172 CE.

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq
Identifiers
Wikidata
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In time

1160117011801190
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks

In space

Mosul

Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph

Overview

The Great al-Nuri Mosque is a mosque in Mosul. Wikidata dates its construction to 1172 CE. 1

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The date rests on one source and needs a second. The data gives no account of the construction. An additional source is needed.

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Mosul

People and things also explored

Battle of al-Khazir· Conquest of Mosul· death of the atabeg Izz al-Din Masud of Mosul· Death of Nur al-Din Arslan Shah of Mosul· death of Quṭb al-Dīn Mawdūd — Sayf al-Dīn Ghāzī II succeeds in Mosul· Muzaffar al-Din of Irbil marches on Mosul and returns· Muzaffar al-Din of Irbil besieges Mosul· Qarwash al-Uqayli's khutba for al-Hakim at Mosul and Kufa

Sources

  1. Wikidata
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islam.museum contributors. “Great Mosque of al-Nuri”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/building/great-mosque-of-al-nuri/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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Battle of al-Khazir

In 66 AH Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad set out with the armies of Syria toward Iraq. When he reached Mosul he met Ibrahim ibn al-Ashtar al-Nakha'i, who commanded the cavalry of Iraq on behalf of al-Mukhtar, at al-Khazir. It was a great battle in which Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad, al-Husayn ibn Numayr, Shurahbil ibn Dhi al-Kala' and leading men of Syria were killed. The book states that al-Mukhtar ibn Abi Ubayd sent a force led by Ibrahim ibn al-Ashtar to fight Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad, that the victory went to Ibn al-Ashtar, and that the Syrian troops suffered killing and drowning. It also says that the rout of the Syrian troops came at the moment when the vein of tribal zeal between Qays and Yemen throbbed.