541 AH
Nur al-Din unites Muslim Syria against the Crusaders, builds schools and hospitals, and orders a carved minbar for al-Aqsa that he will never see in place.
How it touches Islam His minbar stood in al-Aqsa for 782 years, until an arsonist burned it in 1969.
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