The sufi graveyeard - Maqabara al-Sufiyyah


Location:
Baramke, Damascus


The sufi graveyeard was demolished by the French colonizers in order to give way to the University and Hospital buildings. Only a few of the graves were preserved, namely that of Ibn Taymiyya [1, 2]

"Ironically, when the Sufi cemetary was razed to make way for the university of Damascus and its campus in that city, King `Abd al-`Aziz ibn Sa`ud intervened personally to preserve intact the tombs of Ibn Taymiyya and his student Ibn Kathir. " [2]


Reference:
[1] [ITA Fem]
[2] GF Haddad's notes to *Advice to Our Brothers the Ulema of Najd* (Nasiha li-Ikhwanina `Ulama' Najd) by Al-Sayyid Yusuf al-Rifa`, http://www.abc.se/~m9783/n/absn_ep.html Chapter 12 


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