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Footprint Morocco Handbook : The Travel Guide
by Justin McGuinness
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with references to "Grand Mosque".
Excerpt - on Page 89: "
... hotels, workshops and fountains were built, along with a new gateway to the medina. A bridge to Sale, and its Grand Mosque, were also constructed. Yet the most impressive monument from this period, the Hassan Mosque, was never completed. ... "
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High Atlas, North Africa, Moulay Ismail, Beni Mellal, Moulay Hassan, Middle Atlas, Moulay Idriss, Bab Doukkala, Sidi Mohammed, Allal Ben Abdallah, Grand Mosque, Tin Mal
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Morocco, 4th (Footprint - Travel Guides)
by Justin McGuinness
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with references to "Grand Mosque".
Excerpt - on Page 2: "
... hotels, workshops and fountains were built, along with a new gateway to the médina. A bridge to Salé, and its Grand Mosque, were also constructed. Yet the most impressive monument from this period, the Hassan Mosque, was never completed. Projected as the ... "
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Saudi Arabia A Country Study
by Federal Research Division
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with references to "Grand Mosque".
Excerpt - on Page 6: "
... (also known as fundamentalists) who criticized the corrupting influence of Western culture on the royal family to take over the Grand Mosque in Mecca in 1979, ... "
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Sacred Rage : The Wrath of Militant Islam
by Robin Wright
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with references to "Grand Mosque".
Excerpt - on Page 19: "
... THE CRUSADE 19 attempts over an extended period against the President of Iraq; the 1979 seizure of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, and uprisings that year and the next in the oil fields of Saudi Arabia; the assassination of Egyptian ... "
Key Phrases:
United States, Saudi Arabia, Middle East, Ayatollah Khomeini, Lebanese Army, Grand Mosque, Soviet Union, West Beirut, Sheikh Fadlallah, United Nations, suicide driver, personal coverage
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