Hawzah News Agency- Mosul was devastated during the three-year occupation by ISIS from 2014 to 2017 and the subsequent Battle of Mosul, where intense street-to-street fighting, airstrikes, and deliberate demolition of buildings, including historic mosques and infrastructure, left much of the city in ruins and displaced over a million residents.
Mosul was devastated during the three-year occupation by ISIS from 2014 to 2017 and the subsequent Battle of Mosul, where intense street-to-street fighting, airstrikes, and deliberate demolition of buildings, including historic mosques and infrastructure, left much of the city in ruins and displaced over a million residents.
Nearly a decade after the battle that ended the rule of the so-called “Islamic State” in 2017, Mosul has become one of the Middle East’s most powerful stories of the resilience of a people.
Its recovery is not only about bricks and mortar, but about identity, memory, and the determination of its proud Muslim people to restore a way of life that stretches back more than a millennium.
The city of Mosul is revered in the wider Muslim world due to it’s inextricable link with the legendary Muslim ruler Nur Al-Din Mahmoud Zangi, who re-united the Muslims of modern-day Iraq and Syria and paved the way for the re-conquest of Jerusalem.
At the heart of the current revival of Mosul stands one of Mosul’s most revered landmarks, the Great Mosque of al-Nuri. The man who first built this mosque in the 12th century, Nur al-Din Mahmoud Zangi, is remembered today as a champion of justice, religious scholarship, and resistance to the Crusader states.
Nur al-Din’s rule marked a period in which Mosul was not just a frontier city of conflict, but a beacon of organised governance and Islamic revival. His patronage of mosques, schools, and charitable institutions reflected a vision of society rooted in Islamic faith, knowledge, and public welfare.
For Muslims far beyond Iraq, the rebirth of al-Nuri Mosque resonates deeply. Mosul has long been a crossroads of Islamic learning, trade . The restoration of its most iconic mosque signals that a centre of faith and culture, once nearly erased, is alive again. It stands as a reminder that the heritage of the Muslim world is not easily extinguished.
Source: 5 PIlLARS
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