TY  - GEN
AU  - Singer, Lynette.,
TI  - The Minbar of Saladin: Reconstructing A Jewel of Islamic Art 
SN  - 9780500238431 (Hardback)
AV  - NA5978.J53 M56
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - Thames & Hudson
KW  - Masjid al-Aqsa (Jerusalem)
KW  - Minbars
KW  - Jerusalem
KW  - slamic wood-carving
KW  - Islamic decoration and ornament
KW  - Jordan
KW  - Salt
KW  - Islamic wood-carving
KW  - Reproduction
KW  - Buildings, structures, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; This is the remarkable story of one of the masterpieces of Islamic art, the Minbar of Saladin. Made in the middle of the 12th century, this wooden pulpit, perhaps the finest ever seen, stood eight hundred years until it was Jerusalem for some eight hundred years until it was burned down in 1969 by a tourist claiming to be acting on orders from God. Its loss to the Muslim world was immense, and so the decision was taken by the mosque's guardians, the Jordanian royal family, to rebuild it
ER  -