The Nuri Mosque and its Lighthouse of Hadba، (the last historical Islamic monument destroyed in Mosul)

Abstract

Nineveh lived a historic era of footed (Assyrians, in 1080 BC). The governments that left a trace or a variety of diverse influences documented and recorded their presence on its soil. Likewise, Mosul was known as the fortress of the Arab Islamic Army From the West Bank of the Tigris River, it was located at the Islamic conquests of the island and the mountains of the Kurds (16 H / 637 CE - 21 Ht / 641 AD). Then there was the house of the emirate and the mosque and the plans of the Arab tribes, so it arrived between Iraq and the island and was said between the banks of the Tigris (Nineveh Assyria on the east bank of it), And from these historical eras that u Mosul was the Zanki presence by Emaduddin Zanki (who was ruled by the city of the Seljuks during the Abbasid period of succession) in 521 AH / 1132 AD and the group of monuments and monuments built, including the Nuri Mosque and its long minaret Al-Hadba (height 65 m) Zanki, who decided in 566 AH / 1170 AD to erect a mosque more large than the Omari (Mosque of the conquest), which was narrowed by worshipers, was the second mosque took its position on the right coast of Mosul, on the West Bank of Tigris good, planned a rectangular chapel (143 m) Its ceiling is made of marble columns that reach the bowl that is empty of the gulf And in the presence of Noureddine, who prayed in it and arranged the staff of the worker and the reserved posts for its permanence. It was one of the most famous Islamic landmarks of the Mosul. It also announced the establishment of a school in the same location, in addition to the mosque and the lighthouse which became the corner. (According to the archaeological statistics, the longest sloping towers of seventeen sloping towers in the world). The architecture of the layout is divided into two sections: the first is a solid stone base (8 m) and the upper And at an altitude of 7 m above the hump in the form of seven units of precise decoration diameter (3 m) and high (20 m) distinctive addition to the two internal ladder as an architectural architectural idea to treat the weight of the light and the height of the gravity of the earth and the deviation that was known Bahdba later, due to climatic factors also groundwater, It has been a prominent figure over the past nine centuries (listed by the World Fund for Antiquities and Heritage in the list of the most hundred threatening effects in the world) tells the story of the genius of architect Ibrahim Al-Musli and his intelligence in the treatment of altitude and the study of weather and wind direction and take into account, (Most recently demolished and reconstructed in full with the school in 1944), is the only original trace left over from the entire building, so that all of them extended the hand of black destruction to eliminate the entire history of what ruins the historical city (such as the urban city and the city). The destruction of the contents of the Museum of Nineveh, the destruction of the contents of the libraries) by gangs calling the criminal was the site of the last bomber at the withdrawal of the humiliation of the hands of the Iraqi Liberation Forces in (25 Ramadan 2017) ending the story of a profound civilization impacted by the features of time and achievements of the rulers spread for centuries , And so e The focus of our research, which focused on the review of the mosque and the lighthouse, was the planning, engineering, maintenance and renovation stages until the recent announcement of the World Heritage Center, with funding from the United Arab Emirates, the reconstruction of the mosque and the minaret and the surrounding land within a five-year work plan and a fifty- As well as the leader Noureddine Zanki, and the introduction and conclusion and recommendations for the registration of the impact of international organizations overseeing the treasures of the world, and officially documented the declaration that the minaret was one of the longest towers slanted globally, To define the impact this has Matardt the city's historic and archaeological sabotage and blow up the most historic monuments and treasures.