The Malawiya minaret in the Iraqi city of Samarra is one of the most important archaeological architectural monuments that represent the creativity of Arab Islamic architecture in Iraq, and has gained its historical importance thanks to its unique architectural style that has never been built anywhere in the world.
The minaret was built in the form of a spiral cylindrical of the pottery brick that is characterized by Iraq, to be the minaret of the largest mosques in the Islamic world at that time.
The height of the spiral minaret is 52 meters, and it is built on a square base consisting of two squares; The first is 3 meters high, the second square with a height of 120 cm, and the length of one side of the first square sides is 33 meters. And challenge with time.
The number of ladder degrees is 399 degrees, and at the top of the minaret, a layer was built in a circular shape that has 7 windows called by the people of the city of Samarra, “the soup”, which is the place that the muezzin is upgraded, and the call to prayer is raised to prayer.
Our grandparents speak that they saw the remains of columns of wood on the top of the moliles called the hunger, and it is said that it is a shed that the muezzin shade, and that there are also handrails of wood that holds the ascending, and it is worth noting that people were relying at that time to see the muezzin on the top of the Mallaiya during the day, and on his lantern that he carries with him when going up to the bit of the minaret at night, to determine the times of prayer. Where the sound cannot reach far distances in the city.
At that time, Al -Bawarat took into account the mosque towards the qiblah in an accurate and amazing way, which reflects a bright image of the scientific progress that Muslims were at the time.
Because of the aesthetic of this minaret, which is not similar to anywhere in the world, and the aesthetic of building the largest mosque in the Islamic world, the city called the city “The secret of those who saw” was later shortened to Samarra after its name was “the camp”!
Samarra, which was built by the Abbasid Caliph Al -Mu’tasim in God in 836 AD as a Abbasid lecturer for more than 150 years, ruled 8 successors from the Abbasids, and they are “Mu’tasim in God, the victor in God, the confident in God, the trustworthy of God, the help of God, the pride in God, the guidance of God, and the approved.”
The latter deserted it, as it was a city that was the capital of the Abbasid state, built and growing quickly … and it also ended.
One of the most important things that came to us from Samarra today is the lighthouse .. It was the most prominent architectural evidence of Samarra, but rather one of the most important creations of historical Iraqi architecture.
Samarra’s Mallawiya is designed to spin from the bottom up, the opposite of the clockwise direction.
It discloses the secret of keeping it from the annihilation. Whoever raises her high path, and checks her stones and her body, he finds it out of time, as if it was constructed yesterday.
“Samarra”, which is located east of the Tigris River within the administrative borders of Salah al -Din Governorate, was known for its moderate atmosphere, so it is no wonder that it was one of the tourist goals for the Baghdadis and other Iraqi cities, where thousands of visitors and school and university trips reached it.
The unmarried or unmarried women did not give birth, or given only females or any woman who had a wish, and she wanted to achieve her, the path rises to the top of the mortal minaret, and receives from the summit (John) her cloak (the black -traditional Iraqi women’s abaya), to the earth, and if the land reaches furnished and open, then this is a good evidence, and if it is revealed, then this means that its wish will not be fulfilled.
The lighthouse of the Mallawiya and the city of Samarra received the attention of all successive governments in the Iraqi state, until it became registered within the cities and archaeological destinations in the UNESCO World Organization, and it was a destination for visitors from all parts of the world until the neglect and sabotage after the American invasion of Iraq, where a conflict area between the occupied American forces that took from the lighthouse and the archaeological mosque became a military base, and the result of the continuous battles was exposed The minaret of the bombing, causing damage to its upper part.
