Palace and Mosque at Ukhaidir: A Study in Early Mohammadan Architecture

by Gertrude Lowthian Bell

[424] Herzfeld, Erster vorl. Bericht, p. 7.

[425] Idem, p. 37.

[426] A.H. 484; it is the inscription on the north wall. On the south wall of the same wing there is an inscription, which probably alludes to some reparation and gives the date A.H. 874 = A.D. 1469. The inscription on the minaret is in the name of the Inalid Inaldi (A.H. 503-536 = A.D. 1109-1141). Two decrees are built into the north wall of the wide central aisle; they are dated respectively A.H. 639 = A.D. 1241, and A.H. 731 = A.D. 1330. The east wing of the ḥaram bears an inscription on the north wall dated A.H. 550 = A.D. 1155, and another on the same wall dated A.H. 1094 = A.D. 1683, while upon the east gable there is an inscription dated A.H. 735 = A.D. 1334. An inscription on the west arcade of the ṣaḥn is dated A.H. 518 = A.D. 1124, and the eastern arcade is dated A.H. 559 = A.D. 1163, while a second inscription contains the name of Abû ‘al-Qâsin ‘Ali, who died about A.H. 575 = A.D. 1179. On the east gate there is an inscription dated A.H. 575 = A.D. 1179. The madrasah at the north-west corner of the ṣaḥn is dated A.H. 935 = A.D. 1528; the wall to the east of the north door (behind the arcade) A.H. 625 = A.D. 1228; the small madrasah court to the north of this wall A.H. 595 = A.D. 1198, and the north doorway of this madrasah A.H. 576 = A.D. 1180.

[427] Orientalische Literaturzeitung, September 1911, p. 399. In A.D. 1046 Nâṣiri Khusrau saw a mosque here which had marked resemblances with the existing building. Ed. Schefer, p. 28.

[428] Sarre-Herzfeld, Euphrat-und Tigris-Gebiet, vol. i, p. 17; and vol. iii, Plate 88.

[429] Mission en Mésopotamie, vol. i, Plate 20.

[430] Ibn al-Athîr, vol. v, p. 224. The governor of ‘Irâq, Yûsuf ibn Umar, was imprisoned in the Khaḍrâ by Yazîd III, A.D. 744. See too Lammens, ‘La Bâdia et la Ḥîra,’ Mélanges de la Fac. Or., vol. iv, p. 100.

[431] Futûḥ, p. 284. The palace of Ḥadjdjâdj in Wâsiṭ was called al-Qabbet al-khaḍrâ on account of its green dome; ibid., p. 290.

[432] Yâqût, vol. iv, p. 121.

[433] Professor Musil also heard the name; he writes it Aslâm and applies it to the southern end of the Ṭâr. Proceedings of the K. Akad. der Wiss. in Wien, No. 1, 1913, p. 10. Bir Aslâm appears in Captain Leachman’s map. Journal of the R. Geog. Soc., 1911.