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Since its early days, al-Aqsa Mosque has embraced an active scientific movement such as teaching the Holy Quran, Hadith and Islamic Fiqh but this activity has taken a more organized dimension by the emergence of the term of the school as an educational institution that ensures continuity. There are many stories that indicate the spread of the schools in al-Aqsa, which demonstrates the status of al-Aqsa Mosque and its significant role in the dissemination and maintenance of the Islamic sciences.<\/span><\/p>\n The spread of the schools in al-Aqsa was correlated with the Ayyubid period. It also flourished during the Mamluk period. Moreover, the scientific movement maintained its activity during the Ottoman rule.<\/span><\/p>\n Until this time, these schools continue to spread throughout al-Aqsa Mosque, attesting to the Islamic interest in al-Aqsa and the understanding of its scientific role and significance. Some of these schools continue to function as educational institutions while others are used as offices or facilities for the mosque.<\/span><\/p>\n The Khutniya School was built\u00a0during Saladin\u2019s reign in 587\u00a0AH\/1191 AC adjacent to AlQibly Mosque\u2019s southern wall\u00a0and was named after Sheikh\u00a0Al-Khutni, a scholar who\u00a0taught Islamic Sciences at it.\u00a0The school\u2019s original structure\u00a0was subject to several changes\u00a0by adding some rooms and\u00a0restrooms to it. Today, only\u00a0a few arches and windows\u00a0remain of the school\u2019s original\u00a0building.<\/span><\/p>\n Judge Fakhr Ad-Din Mohammad bin Fadl Allah built this\u00a0school in 730 AH\/1329-1330\u00a0AC. It was originally built as\u00a0an Islamic religious school, but\u00a0it was later turned into a Suf\u00a0lodge. Israeli forces have demolished parts of the school,\u00a0leaving only three rooms and a\u00a0small mosque out of its original\u00a0building. The school\u2019s mosque\u00a0structure is simple; it is an oblong room which is based on\u00a0three stone pillars and topped\u00a0with three magnificent domes that were added to the building\u00a0during the Ottoman era. The mosque also has a beautiful niche\u00a0built with red bricks pointing towards the Qibla.<\/span><\/p>\n Prince Alam Ad-Din Abu\u00a0Musa Sanjar Al-Duwaidar\u00a0built this school near the Gate\u00a0of Darkness in 695 AH\/1295\u00a0AC. In addition to being an\u00a0Islamic school that taught\u00a0the Shafe jurisprudence,\u00a0it also served as a hospice.\u00a0The school remained an\u00a0educational address until\u00a0the late Ottoman era.\u00a0Remarkably, it was devoted to teaching girls. It continued with\u00a0this function during the time of the British Mandate. The school\u00a0is made of a two-story building that has a beautiful entrance\u00a0decorated with stalactites*; it also has a mosque inside. Today, the\u00a0building is used as a school called Al-Bakriyah School for people\u00a0with special needs.<\/span><\/p>\n The Governor of Great Syria Prince\u00a0Saif Ad-Din Tankaz An-Nasri built\u00a0this school in 729 AH\/1328 AC. The\u00a0school is located between the Gate of\u00a0the Chain to the north and Al-Buraq\u00a0Wall to the south. It was originally\u00a0dedicated to teaching Prophet\u00a0Mohammad\u2019s (PBUH) traditions\u00a0(Sunnah and Hadith); however, it was\u00a0turned into a courthouse during the\u00a0Mamluk Sultan Qaitbay\u2019s reign. Under\u00a0the Ottomans it became a Shari\u2019a\u00a0Court, until the early days of the British Mandate when the Grand\u00a0Mufti of Jerusalem Amin Al-Husseini made it his place of residence.\u00a0The building went back to being a school for teaching Islamic\u00a0jurisprudence until it was confiscated by the Israeli Authorities\u00a0in 1969 and turned into a Border Police Station to monitor and\u00a0oversee Al-Aqsa Mosque.<\/span><\/p>\n Al-Farisyah School is named after\u00a0its founder Prince Faris Al-Baki bin AlAmir Qatlo bin Abdullah. The school\u00a0was built in 755 AH\/1352 AC, on\u00a0top of Al-Aqsa Mosque\u2019s northern\u00a0corridor, where a staircase leads to\u00a0its arched entrance. Inside the school\u00a0there is an open courtyard and a\u00a0staircase connecting to the adjacent\u00a0Aminyah School, as the two schools\u2019\u00a0structures overlap. Today, the school\u00a0is used as a place of residence for a\u00a0number of Jerusalemite families.<\/span><\/p>\n Prince Hassan bin Tatr Ath-Thahiry\u00a0built this school as a gift for King\u00a0Ath-Thaher Khashqoum in 872\u00a0AH\/1426 AC. However, the latter\u00a0died before the construction\u00a0was completed; thus, Prince AthThahiry decided to dedicate it\u00a0to Sultan Al-Ashraf Qaitbay who\u00a0assigned scholars and teachers to\u00a0it. When Sultan Qaitbay came to\u00a0Jerusalem he visited the school,\u00a0but was not quite impressed by\u00a0the building, so he demolished it and ordered its reconstruction\u00a0in 885 AH\/1470 AC. Al-Ashrafyah School is considered to be\u00a0the third architectural jewel of Al-Aqsa Mosque beside Al-Qibly\u00a0Mosque and the Dome of the Rock. Half of the school is located\u00a0inside Al-Aqsa, while the other half is outside the Mosque\u2019s\u00a0borders. The school consists of a two-story building and has a\u00a0beautiful entrance decorated with white and red bricks. It also\u00a0has a mosque that was once used by the followers of the Hanbali\u00a0principle. There are two graves inside its mosque; one of them is\u00a0thought to be Sheikh Al-Khalil\u2019si tomb.Today, a significant part of\u00a0the school is used as Al-Aqsa Shar\u2019ia School for Girls; another part is used as an office for the Department of Manuscripts\u00a0subordinate to the Islamic Waqf Directorate, while the remaining\u00a0parts are used as houses where some Jerusalemite families live. In\u00a02000, the Islamic Waqf Department and the Welfare Association\u00a0carried out a comprehensive renovation of the building.<\/span><\/p>\n King Joukndar Al-Malaki AnNasiri built this school in\u00a0741 AH\/1340 AC during the\u00a0reign of Sultan An-Naser\u00a0Mohammad bin Qalawun.\u00a0The school consists of a\u00a0two-story building and has a\u00a0beautiful decorated entrance,\u00a0which leads to a vestibule (a\u00a0small room or hall between\u00a0an entrance and the interior\u00a0of the building or house)\u00a0connected to a central open\u00a0courtyard; its largest room\u00a0overlooks Al-Aqsa Mosque\u2019s\u00a0courtyards. This school is\u00a0currently used as residence for some Jerusalemite families.<\/span><\/p>\n Alm Ad-Din Sanjr bin\u00a0Abdullah Al-Jawli, Governor of Jerusalem\u00a0during King An-Naser\u00a0bin Qalawun\u2019S reign,\u00a0built this school in 712-\u00a0720 AH\/1312-1320\u00a0AC, on the northwestern side of Al-Aqsa.\u00a0The school is made\u00a0of a two-story building that has an open\u00a0courtyard surrounded\u00a0by a number of rooms; its southern fa\u00e7ade overlooks Al-Aqsa\u00a0Mosque\u2019s courtyards. The school was turned into a city hall in\u00a0the 9th Century AH, when the Ottomans took over Jerusalem,\u00a0and later became a government\u2019s house but returned to being\u00a0a city hall once again after a while. Today, it is used as part of AlOmariyah School.<\/span><\/p>\n Lady Agl Khatun endowed this school in the 7th Century AH. Its\u00a0eastern windows overlook Al-Aqsa Mosque\u2019s courtyard. Originally it\u00a0was dedicated to teaching Qur\u2019an\u00a0and Islamic jurisprudence. Several\u00a0Islamic and national fgures are\u00a0buried inside this school such as:\u00a0Prince Mohammad Ali Al-Hindi,\u00a0an Indian Prince who defended\u00a0the Palestinian cause; Musa\u00a0Kathem Al-Husseini, head of the\u00a0Nationalist Executive Committee\u00a0of the Palestine Arab Congress\u00a0and Mayor of Jerusalem under\u00a0the Ottomans; Sharif Abdul\u00a0Hamid bin Awn, father-in-law of\u00a0King Abdullah of Jordan; Ahmad\u00a0Hilmi Abdel Baqi, frst Palestinian\u00a0Prime Minister under the 1948\u00a0All-Palestine Government; Abdul Qader Al-Husseini, grandson\u00a0of Musa Kathem Al-Husseini, commander of local Arab forces\u00a0during the 1948 War and leader of the famous Al-Qastal battle;\u00a0his son Faisal Al-Husseini, a Palestinian politician and head of the\u00a0Palestinian representation in Jerusalem (Orient House); and Abdul\u00a0Hamid Shoman, founder of the Arab Bank.<\/span><\/p>\n Majd Ad-Din Abdul Ghani bin Saif Ad-Din Abu Bakr Yusuf Al-Asa\u2019rdi\u00a0ordered building this school in 760 AH\/1385 AC, but it was officially\u00a0endowed in 770\u00a0AH\/1369 AC. The\u00a0school\u2019s entrance is\u00a0located in Al-Aqsa\u2019s\u00a0northern corridor;\u00a0it consists of a two-story building and\u00a0an open courtyard.\u00a0The school is topped\u00a0with three beautiful\u00a0domes and has a\u00a0mosque that overlooks Al-Aqsa\u2019s courtyard. Today, the building is\u00a0used as a house.<\/span><\/p>\n Prince Aragun Al-Kamili started building this school in 758 AH\/1356 AC, but he died before its construction was completed. Consequently, the mission was carried on by Rokn AdDin Baibars. The school is located between the Cotton Merchants Gate and the Iron Gate at the west end of Al-Aqsa Mosque. It consists of a two-story building and has a beautiful entrance decorated with red and white bricks that can be found in the southern part of the Iron Gate alley. The entrance has a plate with the school\u2019s founder\u2019s name and the year of its construction inscribed on top of it. It also has two tombs inside; one belongs to its founder Prince Aragun, while the other is for the Hashemite King AlHussein bin Ali who was buried inside the school\u2019s eastern room on the first \ufb02oor. Today, the school is used as a house.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a012. <\/strong><\/b>Al-Aminiyah School<\/strong><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Amin Ad-Din Abdullah built\u00a0this school in 730 AH\/1330 AC,\u00a0overlooking Al-Aqsa Mosque\u2019s\u00a0northern corridor. The school\u00a0consists of a two-story\u00a0building, where a number of\u00a0Muslim scholars were buried.\u00a0Its structure overlaps with AlFarisyah School. Today the school\u00a0building is used as a house.<\/span><\/p>\n 13.<\/strong><\/b>Al-Basitiyah School<\/strong><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Al-Basitiyah School is\u00a0located in the north\u00a0of Al-Aqsa Mosque, to\u00a0the east of the Gate of\u00a0Darkness next to AlDuawaidaryah School. It\u00a0was endowed by Judge\u00a0Zein Ad-Din Abdul-Basit\u00a0Khalil Al-Dimashqi\/AlQahiri who was in charge\u00a0of the treasury and army\u00a0during the reign of King\u00a0Al-Mu\u2019ayyad Saif Ad-Din Sheikh Al-Mamluki (815-824 AH\/1412-\u00a01421 AC).\u00a0The school\u2019s foundation is credited to Sheikh Al-Islam Shams AdDin Mohammad Al-Harawi, inspector of the two noble mosques\u00a0(Al-Aqsa and Al-Ibrahimi) who commenced its construction but\u00a0passed away before its completion. It consists of three rooms\u00a0and an outdoor yard. The school was concerned with teaching\u00a0Shafei jurisprudence, Hadith and the Holy Qur\u2019an for orphans,\u00a0especially the Sufis. Today, it serves as a residential building.<\/span><\/p>\n This school is located\u00a0on the Western Wall\u00a0of Al-Aqsa Mosque to\u00a0the left when entering\u00a0the mosque from the\u00a0Inspector\u2019s Gate. It is\u00a0attributed to its founder\u00a0and the registrar of its\u00a0waqf in the 8th Century\u00a0AH, Saif Ad-Din Manjak\u00a0Al-Yousif An-Nasiry.\u00a0It comprises two \ufb02oors which have a large covered corridor and\u00a0include many rooms and halls of different sizes. Initially, it was\u00a0built as a school, then, towards the end of the Ottoman era, it\u00a0was turned into a residential house. It also served as a shelter\u00a0for strangers who visited Jerusalem. During the British Mandate\u00a0it became an elementary school. Later, the Supreme Islamic Council renovated it to become its headquarters. However, today it serves as the headquarters of the Jerusalem Waqf Directorate which is subordinate to the Jordanian Ministry of Endowment and Islamic Affairs.<\/span><\/p>\n The Ottoman School is located at the Ablution Gate, next to AlAshrafyah School. It is named after a Turkish lady, called Asfahan\u00a0Shah Khatun Bint Mahmoud Al-\u2019Uthmaniyah, who established it\u00a0in 840 AH\/1436 CE.\u00a0The school consists of two\u00a0\ufb02oors and can be reached\u00a0through a beautiful Mamluk\u00a0entrance surmounted\u00a0by inscription of its\u00a0foundation and decorated\u00a0with alternating red and\u00a0white stones. The school\u00a0consists of a number of\u00a0rooms and a small open\u00a0courtyard, overlooking\u00a0Al-Aqsa Mosque, with a\u00a0fa\u00e7ade made of red and\u00a0white stones. There are\u00a0two tombs to the left side of the entrance; one of them is for\u00a0the lady who endowed it.\u00a0The building was reconstructed by the Supreme Islamic Council,\u00a0yet the school and its mosque sustained some damages because\u00a0of the Israeli authorities\u2019 excavations beneath it. The Israeli\u00a0authorities have confiscated the school\u2019s mosque allegedly to\u00a0create ventilation for the tunnel beneath it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since its early days, al-Aqsa Mosque has embraced an active scientific movement such as teaching the Holy Quran, Hadith and Islamic Fiqh but this activity has taken a more organized…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-al-aqsa-architecture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.aqsapedia.net\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.aqsapedia.net\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.aqsapedia.net\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.aqsapedia.net\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.aqsapedia.net\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.aqsapedia.net\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.aqsapedia.net\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.aqsapedia.net\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.aqsapedia.net\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.aqsapedia.net\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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