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The Legend that al-Walīd asked for and obtained help from the Byzantine Emperor. A Suggested Explanation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

K. A. C. Creswell
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Arabic authors are fond of recording the help that al-Walīd received from the Byzantine Emperor when he was building the Mosque of Madīna and the Great Mosque of Damascus.

Let us take Madīna first. Balādhurī (c. 868) merely states that “al-Walīd wrote to 'Umar ibn 'Abd al-'Azīz, his Governor at Madīna, ordering him to demolish the mosque and reconstruct it. He had money, mosaics and marble sent to him and eighty Rūmī and Coptic craftsmen, inhabitants of Syria and Egypt… ”

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 88 , Issue 3-4 , October 1956 , pp. 142 - 145
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1956

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