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min·bar

 (mĭn′bär′)
n.
An elevated platform near the mihrab in a mosque, from which the sermon is delivered during services.

[Arabic, probably from Ge'ez manbar, seat, pulpit, or mənbār, seat, throne, both from nabara, to sit; see nbr in Semitic roots.]
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A delegation of experts from across Egypt, Tunisia, and Sudan are visiting the Mamluk Minbars of Cairo and celebrating the success of the restoration work conducted on it as part of UK's Cultural Protection Fund, according to a Thursday statement of the British embassy in Egypt.
Y sont ainsi exposes d'antiques minbars, ces chaires a precher lors des prieres du vendredi, des pyxides en ceramique, de superbes soieries, de tres rares manuscrits aux calligraphies enluminees, des embellissements d'architecture, de venerables elements de mobilier, et d'autres joyaux du passe glorieux du Royaume.
The Medieval Morocco exhibition displays very symbolic items as minbars (where the preacher stands) and bell lamps of the Al Qarawiyyin mosque which were lent by the Kingdom.
In Islamic times, the focus changed to new types of religious buildings and their accouterments (minbars, mihrabs, Koran manuscripts, etc.), but the sense of architectural creativity and skill continued.
"We acted immediately and undertook practical steps to implement His Majesty's directives and ensure Mosque minbars ( pulpits) become beacons of faith, piety, tolerance, unity, construction and development", Shaikh Salman said.
Les colloques traitaient de tout : la cause palestinienne, la creation des minbars politiques, puis des partis, la galette de pain, les problemes du trafic.
The crescent crowning the finial--not "spire" as is repeatedly used in this text (149, 150, 153) of domes and minarets and minbars and mihrabs, was and is a reminder not of the Ottomans but of the Almighty.
Beginning with President Anwar al-Sadat's agreement in 1974 to allow three minbars (pulpits), later transformed into political parties, to compete with one another, the Egyptian regime has been able to present itself as at least moving significantly away from the authoritarianism (what Dahl calls "inclusive hegemony") of the 1960s in the direction of polyarchy.