Saturday, July 13, 2013

Mansouri Great Mosque, Tripoli, Lebanon

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The Great Mosque of Tripoli was built around the year 1300. The Mansouri Mosque was named after the Mamluk sultan al-Mansur Qalawun, who conquered Tripoli from the Crusaders in 1289.
Mamlūk, also spelled Mameluke, are slave warriors of medieval Islam who overthrew their masters, defeated the Mongols and the Crusaders and established a dynasty that lasted three hundred years.

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Lebanese singer Nouhad Wadi Haddad, known as Fayrouz (1935), the Jewel of Lebanon.

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