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Minbar

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A named stepped pulpit of Islamic congregational speech. Not a lituus, not Hliðskjálf, and not a generic staff.

Islam

  • Minbar is historically related to Islam.

    Hughes MIMBAR / pulpit seats the raised pulpit of the mosque from which the khuṭbah is delivered — pulpit speech, not the miḥrāb niche alone.

    from Thomas Patrick Hughes · A Dictionary of Islam, 1885

    historically related to · sourced · documented

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