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The thunderbolt of Jerusalem

صاعقة بيت المقدس

c. December 1447 CE · Shawwal 851 AH

Jerusalem

In mid-Shawwal 851 a tremendous thunderbolt struck Jerusalem 1.

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Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
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In time

1430144014501460 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

In space

Jerusalem

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Lightning strike in Jerusalem

During Shawwal 851 AH a huge bolt of lightning struck Jerusalem 1.

Ibn al-ʿImad recorded it among the calamities of the year, which passed over the cities in turn.

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Jerusalem

People and things also explored

Masjid Al-Aqsa· al-Haram al-Sharif (the Temple Mount esplanade)· Dome of the Rock· Mosque of Omar· The Western Wall (Buraq Wall)· Arson at al-Aqsa Mosque (1969)· Atsiz ibn Uwaq's campaign against Syria· Buraq Wall disturbances (1929)

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 268-269
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Masjid Al-Aqsa

The Aqsa mosque on Jerusalem's south-east corner as al-Muqaddasi saw it: Davidic foundations of ten-cubit carved blocks, Abd al-Malik's superstructure 'finer than the Damascus mosque' until an Abbasid-era earthquake felled the roofed part save the mihrab; too costly for the treasury, the caliph had each provincial amir rebuild one arcade — leaving a visible 'seam' — and Abdallah ibn Tahir added fifteen marble arcades; twenty-six doors, the greatest plated in gilded brass, the domes of the Chain, the Ascension and the Prophet on its platform.