UAE's Department of Culture in addition to Tourism announced on Sat the regain of the oldest mosque inwards the urban substance of Al-Ain, eastward of the working capital missive of the alphabet Abu Dhabi, adding that archaeologists inwards the subdivision stimulate got studied the regain dating dorsum to a greater extent than than 1,000 years.
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| The latest discoveries that shed novel calorie-free on the history of the UAE at the dawn of Islam [Credit: DCT Abu Dhabi] |
This was a menses of time, which ushered inwards a moving ridge of alter across the UAE. The novel faith brought alongside it a laid of values in addition to beliefs that stimulate got since defined the history of the country.
Close to the construction site of the Sheikh Khalifa mosque inwards Al-Ain, DCT Abu Dhabi archaeologists discovered several falaj (irrigation waterways), at to the lowest degree 3 buildings and, to a greater extent than significantly, a mosque which dates dorsum to Islam's Early Golden Age of the Abbasid Caliphate, 1,000 years ago. The mosque is the earliest yet discovered inwards the UAE.
According to the Emirates News Agency (WAM), Mohamed Khalifa Al-Mubarak, Chairman of DCT Abu Dhabi, said: "The novel findings at the Al-Ain archaeological sites bear witness the richness of the region's history, which allows us to expand our noesis of ages long past."
"The regain of a mosque from the Abbasid menses inwards Al-Ain demonstrates the deeply-rooted influences of Islam inwards the region, despite the immense distance from where Islam commencement emerged in addition to at a fourth dimension when modes of shipping were quite rudimentary. However, these findings display clear in addition to profound cultural influences that discover how the connections established past times our ancestors alongside neighboring cultures in addition to nations transcended borders in addition to surmounted carry difficulties, which inwards plough calls for farther analysis to shape a holistic agreement of our past."
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| A estimator generated three-dimensional sentiment of the mosque [Credit: DCT Abu Dhabi] |
But the archaeologists believe it is the regain in addition to earthworks of a mudbrick mosque that places Al-Ain on the global map equally an of import centre during the early on Islamic period. Experts were alerted to the fact that it is a mosque past times the presence of a mihrab (a niche inwards the wall of the mosque, at the dot nearest to Mecca) on the interior room in addition to on the exterior. Thus the faithful would stimulate got prayed within in addition to exterior the mosque, simply equally they hit today.
Fragments of pots, which were probable used for ablution (ceremonial washing) in addition to other ritual purposes, were found within the mosque in addition to appointment from the 9th to the tenth Centuries CE. These discoveries in addition to a radiocarbon appointment from i of the nearby falaj confirm that the mosque is the earliest yet discovered inwards the UAE.
Experts believe that this unproblematic mosque indicates the popularity in addition to crucial seat of Islam inwards the UAE inwards the centuries next the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH). Along alongside groves of appointment palms supported past times the falaj, Al-Ain inwards the early on Islamic menses was already inwards a shape that would endure recognizable today.
Archaeologists likewise believe the finds from the mosque dot to some other of import characteristic of early on Islamic lodge - which the spread of Islam opened upwards merchandise in addition to ushered inwards a novel global historic menses of commerce. In add-on to imported ceramics from the residual of the Gulf, several fragments of Dusun ceramics were discovered inwards the mosque in addition to next buildings. This unique pottery was produced inwards the Guangdong say of due south Cathay in addition to was traded across Eastern Asia in addition to the Middle East.
That Arab merchants in addition to sailors ventured far from their homes to merchandise for these goods, is at in i lawsuit indicated past times the regain of an Arabian dhow shipwreck off the coast of Indonesia.
DCT experts hit non know if people inwards Al-Ain travelled that far, but the discoveries betoken that the town, peradventure known in addition to therefore equally Tawwam, was role of a vibrant global economical system. It probable participated inwards the merchandise through i of the ports that existed on the coast at this time.
DCT's experts are continuing to query inwards Al-Ain in addition to elsewhere inwards Abu Dhabi, inwards a bid to shed farther calorie-free on the early on centuries of Islam.
Already, DCT archaeologists stimulate got investigated a Christian church building that dates to this fourth dimension on the isle of Sir Bani Yas. This edifice highlights some other critical characteristic of the early on Islamic period: a tolerance in addition to credence of other religions, which is nonetheless a characteristic of life inwards today's UAE.
Source: Menafn [September 08, 2018]
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