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Tarim ( Arabic: تَرِيْم, romanized : Tarīm) is a historic town situated in Wadi Hadhramaut ( Arabic: وادي حضرموت, lit. 'Valley of Hadhramaut'), Yemen. It is widely acknowledged as the theological, juridical, and academic center of the Hadhramaut Valley. An important center of Islamic learning, it is estimated to contain the ...
2000 and 2002 World Monuments Watch. The palaces of Tarim are among the most intricate and technologically sophisticated mud-brick structures in the world. Their architectural style is an elaborate synthesis of southeast Asian, Neo-Classical, Rococo, and Hadhrami elements, reflecting the role of Tarim as a crossroads of trade between east and ...
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Oct 15, 2009 · Crossroads of Islam, Past and Present. Most of the students at Dar al-Mustafa, the local religious school in Tarim, Yemen, are between 18, the minimum age, and 25. Bryan Denton for The New York ...
Sep 15, 2023 · The earliest of the mummies date to about 2,100 B.C., while more recent mummies have been dated to about 500 B.C. One of the most famous mummies found in the Tarim Basin is the Princess of Xiaohe ...
It is said: “it was first build by Tarim bin Hadramout bin Saba Al-Asghar.” It was mentioned in the ancient Yemeni inscriptions Tarm (in the Irian inscription 32), and Tarim in (Naqsh Jam 547). In the Islamic era, Tarim became a center of science and knowledge in Yemen. Al-Hamdani described it in the book (Al-Sifa) as a "great city".
The Mosque of Al Muhdhar was built in honor of Omar Al-Muhdhar bin Abdul Rahman Al-Saqqaf, an Islamic leader of Tarim in the 1400s. The giant white minaret of Al Muhdhar Mosque is the tallest minaret in all of Yemen at 46 meters in height. The minaret was designed by an architect by the name of Awad Salman Afif al-Tarmi.
