The UAE and Iraq on Monday launched a joint effort to reconstruct Mosul's Great Mosque of Al Nuri and its ... During the ceremony at Baghdad's National Museum, UAE Culture Minister Noura Al ...

Mosul’s Grand al-Nuri Mosque, known for its eight-century-old ... a senior Iraqi oil official told Reuters, as Baghdad seeks to win back foreign investment. Exclusive: BP poised to invest ...

Caliph Al-Mansur ordered the building of Baghdad between AD762 and AD767 ... It was part of the Great Mosque of Samarra which was the largest mosque in the world at the time.

In Baghdad, the Abbasid caliph created a centre of learning which was known as the House of Wisdom, or the Grand Library of Baghdad ... from across the world. Mosque design influenced gothic ...