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The Umayyad congregational mosque of Jarash in Jordan and its relationship to early mosques

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2015

Alan Walmsley  and
Kristoffer Damgaard
Alan Walmsley
Affiliation:
Carsten Niebuhr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, (Email: walmsley@hum.ku.dk)
Kristoffer Damgaard
Affiliation:
Carsten Niebuhr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, (Email: kristofferdamgaard@hotmail.com)
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Abstract

The early mosque at Jarash is reconstructed by archaeological excavation and survey and attributed to a wave of urban renewal in the reign of caliph Hisham (AD 724-743).

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JordanIslamicmosqueurbanism

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Antiquity , Volume 79 , Issue 304 , June 2005 , pp. 362 - 378
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2005

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