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/ Baghdad / Attractions / Sheikh Maruf Shrine
Nearby
stands a small shrine with the remains of a holy ascetic-Sheikh
Maruf- who died a few years after Harun. It was burned
accidentally in 1067 and rebuilt by orders of Caliph
al-Qaim . . . restored in 1215 by Caliph al-Nasir..
. The Mongol sacking of Baghdad in 1258 does not seem
to have destroyed this mosque, for ibn Battuta [the
great Tunisian traveller], who visited Baghdad in 1327,
speaks of it as "standing in the quarter of the Basra
Gate". The mosque has undergone several restorations
including those in 1675, 1688, 1892 and finally in 1974
by the Mudir el Awqaf [Ministry of Religious Endowments]
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