Cairo, Jerusalem, and Damascus: . the Abbasid Mansur, who utilised the sumso obtained for restoring the Mosque after the rav-ages of an earthquake, which had wrecked it shortlybefore the fall of the Umayyad dynasty. Anotherearthquake brought the building down after thisrestoration, and the Caliph Mahdi (775-785 A. D,)had it rebuilt, but with the proportions somewhataltered; for supposing that the weakness of theédifice had been occasioned by excessive length anddéficient breadth, he made the new building shorterbut broader than the old. It has been shown thatthèse Caliphs did actually visit Jé
Cairo, Jerusalem, and Damascus: . the Abbasid Mansur, who utilised the sumso obtained for restoring the Mosque after the rav-ages of an earthquake, which had wrecked it shortlybefore the fall of the Umayyad dynasty. Anotherearthquake brought the building down after thisrestoration, and the Caliph Mahdi (775-785 A. D,)had it rebuilt, but with the proportions somewhataltered; for supposing that the weakness of theédifice had been occasioned by excessive length anddéficient breadth, he made the new building shorterbut broader than the old. It has been shown thatthèse Caliphs did actually visit Jérusalem, whencethere is no inhérent improbability in the romancersstatements with regard to the successive restorations,though the story of the gold and silver plates isprobably apocryphal. According to a geographerof the tenth century, in the restoration efïected byMahdi, the rebuilding of the several colonnades wasassigned by the Caliph to various governors, but aportion of the ancient édifice and that supported on [356].
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