TurnToIslam If you want to know@tti/2nd Edition.

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A Palestinian coffee house at the turn of the twentieth century

 

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A Quranic manuscript from 391 AH showing Surat al-Fatiha and the first six verses of Surat al-Baqara.

 

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Tilework at the Wazir Khan Mosque in Lahore, Pakistan. Built in 1635.

 

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A Friday Prayer at Jama Masjid in Delhi, India. It was built in 1656 by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan.

 

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The Chor Minor (Four Minarets) complex in Bukhara, Uzbekistan. Built in 1807, it was part of a larger madrasa complex.

 

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Geometric designs and calligraphy on an exterior wall of the Masjid.

 

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The interior of the Suleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul, built in 1558.

 

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The Hala Sultan Mosque in Larnaca, Cyprus.

 

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Calligraphic inscription above Bab-ı Hümayun, a gate to Topkapı Palace in Istanbul.

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim:
Surah Hijr, V45-48 45. "Truly! The Muttaqun will be amidst Gardens and water-springs (Paradise).
46. "(It will be said to them): 'Enter therein (Paradise), in peace and security.'
47. "And We shall remove from their breasts any sense of injury (that they may have), (So they will be like) brothers facing each other on thrones.
48. "No sense of fatigue shall touch them, nor shall they (ever) be asked to leave it."

 

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A coffeehouse in Algiers, Algeria in 1899. Coffee was originally discovered in Ethiopia or Yemen and spread from there throughout the Muslim world and into Europe.

 

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The Akhmad Kadyrov Mosque in Grozny, Chechnya. Built in 2008, it is architecturally very similar to Ottoman-style mosques built in the 1500s.

 

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(19 January 1824), one of the earliest Muslims in America, Yarrow Mamout, died in Georgetown, Washington DC.

He was brought to Maryland in the late 1700s. He eventually received his freedom in 1796 and went on to live, as a Muslim, in Washington DC until he died.

 

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The courtyard and minaret of the Bou Inania Madrasa in Fes, Morocco. Built in the 1300s by the Marinid Dynasty of Morocco.

 

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The Kok Gumbaz Mosque in Shahrisabz, Uzbekistan. Built by the Timurid Empire in 1437.

 

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The Damascus Gate of the Old City of Jerusalem, in 1910.

 

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Muslim Spain was a center of knowledge in the Middle Ages.

Pictured is the minaret of the Great Mosque of Cordoba, built in the 900s.

 

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Photo is of Sana'a, the capital of Yemen.

 

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The dome of the Tilla-Kari madrassa (school) in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Built in the mid-1600s.