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Stockman's Bar in Sidney, Montana on September 15, 1978 during the World Championship Heavyweight fight between Muhammed Ali and Leon Spinks
We’re Here: Boxing Memories
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I’m not a big boxing fan. Somehow I just cannot feel the joy while cheering on the participants to batter each other bloody. But, there is one boxing champion who was such an epic personality that I do carry memories of his time and consider him a hero. Clockwise, this collage of images is from the following sources:
Portrait of Muhammad Ali from 1967 By Ira Rosenberg [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons; commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Muhammad_Ali_NYWTS.jpg
Winner at 1960 Olympics By Polish Press Agency (PAP) ([1], #5/28) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Refusing the draft during the Vietnam War as a conscientious objector
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Receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom
By White House photo by Paul Morse [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Background – Receiving the Olympic Flag in 1996 in one of the most moving and memorable ceremonies ever
By Richj1209 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
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415 West 13th Street, NYC
by navema
Screen prints on textured archival art paper.
Recognizable Artists Featured: John Lennon, Shakespeare, Mona Lisa, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Muhammad Ali, Louis Armstrong, Jimi Hendrix, Walt Disney, Stevie Wonder, Marilyn Manson, John Lennon, Billie Holiday
ICONS show runs February 14th – March 31st, 2010
Los Angeles based French street artist, Mr. Brainwash (aka Thierry Guetta), celebrates his first solo show in New York with ICONS. Mr. Brainwash is the alter-ego of French immigrant Thierry Guetta, who now lives in Los Angeles. His preoccupation with street art and graffiti led him to years filming the people behind the work, and eventually he became an artist too.
This body of work is the result of traveling throughout Europe and the United States as the subject of Banksy's new documentary, Exit Through the Gift Shop. This documentary about the process secretly premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January of 2010. It wasn’t listed in the program, but quickly became the hottest ticket at the festival. Featuring famed street artists like Banksy, Ron English, Borf and Shepard Fairey, the viewer is able to watch the famous fiends at work. One of the most memorable scenes is of Banksy installing an inflatable replica of a Guantanamo torture victim right next to a roller coaster in The Happiest Place On Earth — Disneyland.
Being a trusted accomplice of Banksy is no small feat — and accomplice is perhaps a better word than friend, given that Banksy described Guetta as “maybe just someone with mental problems who happened to have a camera.”
Since his entrance onto the contemporary art scene in 2008 with his Los Angles show “Life is Beautiful”, Mr. Brainwash (Guetta) has raised a lot of questions, namely ‘is he for real?’ Guetta began to follow the exploits street artists’ Shepard Fairey and Banksy with a digital video camera, but soon Banksy turned the camera on Guetta, encouraging him to create his own persona, which is the end product of Exit Through the Gift Shop, the documentary being billed as ‘the world’s first street art disaster movie’. Critics and gallerists alike have written him off as a hack, or simply a regurgitation of Banksy and Shepard Fairey’s existing work.
Held in a two story converted gallery space, at 415 West 13th Street, the show features pop portraits, prints, and engaging large scale sculptures. An enormous multi-level space packed with jumbo canvases and installations, including a life-size horse made from tire treads. In the middle of the upper level was a pink-splattered can of paint so big you could hold a party inside it. Combining pop art sensibilities with graffiti culture, Mr. Brainwash’s relentless riffing on celebrity culture is at once familiar and colorful. He recasts Angelina Jolie as Marilyn Monroe, smothers a 7′ can of spray-paint with Louis Vuitton’s famous monogram, and recreates Jimi Hendrix on a canvas covered in crushed records. At the back of the room, almost hidden in the dark, was a classic NYC cab sealed inside life-sized Matchbox packaging.
The feeling of the show? A Warholian art revival with walls filled up with dozens of replicant Madonna images, as in Warhol's Campbell's Soup series, so much so that it could be difficult to say if the whole thing is just a joke or Mr. Brainwash really believes he is 'an original'. To underline his artistic personality, though, all the silkscreens were colored with spray paint or had some additional details.
Regardless of sentiment, Guetta’s work draws a crowd. Without endorsing or refuting his credibility as an artist, Brainwash certainly fulfilled the exhibitions’ namesake. Under his nom de guerre, Guetta created or reproduced images that are easily identifiable; the subjects are no longer individuals, but rather logos in our collective cultural memory.
For more about the artist, please visit: www.mrbrainwash.com
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Muhammad Ali meeting fans at a book signing at Waterstones in the Galleries, Bristol. Taken November 1993.
When Muhammad Ali turns off the light switch, the room is dark. When Muhammad Ali turns on the light switch, the room is lit. Because the production of electricity is fueled by nuclear energy.
Uranium enrichment is good. It is a process utilized toward production of energy that fuels economic activity.
Wars do not start because of a technological capacity to reap destruction.
Wars do start for every reason you want.
I love uranium enrichment.
If you think it should be impossible for Iran to produce as much power as it likes, Philippe Douste-Blazy will gladly support you.
[Photo of billboard, subway NYC, 2004]
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Muhammad Ali fought Ernie Shavers at Madison Square Garden on September 29, 1977 defending his title. Ali took a unanimous decision although in the second round, Shavers hurt Ali badly with an overhand right. For more visit www.boxingmemories.com/
Before he became known as Muhammad Ali, the former heavyweight-boxing champ was named Cassius Clay. This copy of Referee Magazine features Clay and former heavyweight champ Sonny Liston getting ready to do battle a second time. The magazine is dated Nov. 21, 1964, nine months after Clay beat Liston the first time (February 25, 1964) and six months before the newly named Muhammad Ali beat Liston the second time (May 25, 1965). Clay signed this copy of the magazine as Muhammad Ali.
[Note: The rematch between Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston was moved to Lewiston, Maine after a deal with the Boston Garden fell through. It was a short bout: Ali knocked out Liston in the first round on May 25, 1965.]
Al-Rifa‘i (Ahmad ibn ʽAli al-Rifaʽi) 1119-1183, was an Iraqi Sunni Muslim preacher, ascetic, mystic, jurist, and theologian, known for being the eponymous founder of the Rifaʽi tariqa (Sufi order) of Islam. Although this mosque is named after him, the shrine contains the burials of his grandson, 'Ali Abu Shibbak al-Rifai and another Sufi mystic, 'Abd Allah al-Ansari.
The Mosque of al-Rifa'i replaced a zawiya (shrine) of the sufi saint, al-Rifa'i. It is also the royal mausoleum of Muhammad 'Ali's family, in addition to Hosh al-Basha (the Courtyard of the Pasha), in the Southern Cemetery.
Patron: commissioned by Hoshiyar Qadin (Hoşyar Kadın) ?-1885, consort to Ibrahim Pasha & Walida Pasha to their son, Isma'il Pasha.
Original architect: Hussein Pasha Fahmi (a distant cousin of Muhammad 'Ali), Minister of Awqaf, who died in 1880 when work stopped.
Construction Supervisor: Khalil Agha chief eunuch & director of estates for Isma'il Pasha.
Completed: work resumed in 1905 when the Khedive, Abbas II, ordered its completion. Work was supervised by architect Max Herz (Herz Miksa, Hungarian) 1856-1919, head of the Comité de Conservation des Monuments de l'Art Arabe.
Islamic Monument #U103
Patrons: Hasan Pasha Tahir d.1803, Albanian commander & acting Ottoman governor of Egypt (r.1803), with his brother 'Abdin Bey Tahir (1780-1827), a member of the core group of Muhammad Ali's (r.1805-1849) commanders; Abdeen Palace was named after him & was built on the site of his residence.
Islamic Monument #210
Ali-Frazier II took place January 28, 1974. Its the second of three bouts between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, that took place at the Madison Square Garden in New York City, on January 28, 1974. Ali won by unanimous decision.
I thought that the portrait of Muhammad Ali and the jogging woman composite an interesting connection between the past and the present.
Al-Rifa‘i (Ahmad ibn ʽAli al-Rifaʽi) 1119-1183, was an Iraqi Sunni Muslim preacher, ascetic, mystic, jurist, and theologian, known for being the eponymous founder of the Rifaʽi tariqa (Sufi order) of Islam. Although this mosque is named after him, the shrine contains the burials of his grandson, 'Ali Abu Shibbak al-Rifai and another Sufi mystic, 'Abd Allah al-Ansari.
The Mosque of al-Rifa'i replaced a zawiya (shrine) of the sufi saint, al-Rifa'i. It is also the royal mausoleum of Muhammad 'Ali's family, in addition to Hosh al-Basha (the Courtyard of the Pasha), in the Southern Cemetery.
Patron: commissioned by Hoshiyar Qadin (Hoşyar Kadın) ?-1885, consort to Ibrahim Pasha & Walida Pasha to their son, Isma'il Pasha.
Original architect: Hussein Pasha Fahmi (a distant cousin of Muhammad 'Ali), Minister of Awqaf, who died in 1880 when work stopped.
Construction Supervisor: Khalil Agha chief eunuch & director of estates for Isma'il Pasha.
Completed: work resumed in 1905 when the Khedive, Abbas II, ordered its completion. Work was supervised by architect Max Herz (Herz Miksa, Hungarian) 1856-1919, head of the Comité de Conservation des Monuments de l'Art Arabe.
Tomb: Shehret Feza Hanim (Şöhretfeza Hanım, Empyrean fame) 1829-1895. Circassian Princess consort (1st & principal wife) of Isma'il Pasha.
Islamic Monument #U103
“Fighter’s Heaven”, Muhammad Ali’s Training Camp in Deer Lake, Pennsylvania, was the training facility built by Muhammad Ali, where he trained for some of his biggest fights. It is now open to the public, free of charge, to tour.
Coachwork by H.J. Mulliner - Park Ward
ex-Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali)
Bonhams : the Zoute Sale
Estimated : € 40.000 - 60.000
Sold for € 132.250
Zoute Grand Prix 2018
Knokke - Zoute
België - Belgium
October 2018
Offered here is a significant piece of sporting and motoring history in the form of a 1970 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow Convertible, originally owned by boxing legend, Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali). Voted 'Sportsman of the Century', Ali is the only three-time lineal Heavyweight Champion and has been ranked the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time.
This sporting hero was still known as Cassius Clay when he bought the Rolls-Royce new in New Jersey in December 1970, possibly in celebration of having regained his boxing license, which had been taken away when he refused to be drafted into the United States military during the Vietnam War, citing religious principles. As punishment, he was stripped of both his boxing license and passport for nearly five years.
In August 1970, the City of Atlanta granted Ali a license and in 1974 he took part in arguably the most famous boxing match of all time, 'The Rumble in the Jungle' in which he knocked out the hitherto undefeated World Heavyweight Champion George Foreman just before the end of the eighth round. Ali's fights regularly drew record audiences, including 1 billion television viewers for 'The 'Rumble in the Jungle' and 'Thrilla in Manila', and 2 billion for 'Spinks vs Ali' in 1978.
Ali was a known Rolls-Royce enthusiast - he owned many during his life - and the prospect of owning its most expensive top-of-the-range model - the Silver Shadow Convertible - must have been irresistible. With the Silver Shadow's introduction, Rolls-Royce switched to unitary construction for the chassis/body, which meant that by the mid-1960s the market for traditional coachbuilt automobiles had been severely curtailed. Of the many hundreds of firms trading pre-war, just two - James Young and the now combined firm of H J Mulliner, Park Ward Ltd - were left to meet the demand for a coachbuilt Rolls-Royce or Bentley, though these might be more accurately termed conversions rather than 100 percent bespoke creations.
Recalling its glamorous Grandes Routières of pre-war days such as the Phantom II Continental, Rolls-Royce's final coachbuilt models - entrusted to the company's in-house coachbuilder H J Mulliner, Park Ward - were limited to just two: a two-door coupé or similar convertible, the former arriving in March 1966 and the latter in September the following year. The cars were hand built in the best traditions of British coachbuilding using only materials of the finest quality, including Wilton carpeting, Connolly hide, and burr walnut veneers, a necessarily lengthy process that took all of 20 weeks for the saloon and slightly longer for the more complex convertible. This painstaking attention to detail resulted in a price some 50% higher than the standard Silver Shadow's. Nevertheless, demand for these more glamorous alternatives to the much more numerous Silver Shadow was strong right from the start, a state of affairs that resulted in them being given their own model name - 'Corniche' - in March 1971.
This Silver Shadow Convertible was owned by Ali for some six years, passing to a second owner in the USA in 1976. The car has since found its way to Europe before being purchased by the current owner, an enthusiast in Holland. The car has never been completely restored; even the rare optional headrests (as can be seen on the archive photo) are still in place and it still retains most of the original interior, but the latter has had a colour change. The current owner has tried to keep the car original, especially the interior, while making substantial improvements.
Accompanying documentation includes copies of the original Car Specification sheet and Warranty Acknowledgement; a copy of Clay's Temporary Drivers License; Netherlands registration papers; a photo book and a copy of the photograph taken of Muhammad Ali and his close friend Diana Ross with the Rolls-Royce outside Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas before Ali's fight with Joe Bugner in February 1973.
Described by the vendor as in very good condition mechanically, this rare and exclusive Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow Convertible represents a possibly once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own not only an impressive motor car but a piece of history originally belonging to one of the world's greatest ever sportsmen.
Coachwork by H.J. Mulliner - Park Ward
ex-Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali)
Bonhams : the Zoute Sale
Estimated : € 40.000 - 60.000
Sold for € 132.250
Zoute Grand Prix 2018
Knokke - Zoute
België - Belgium
October 2018
Offered here is a significant piece of sporting and motoring history in the form of a 1970 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow Convertible, originally owned by boxing legend, Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali). Voted 'Sportsman of the Century', Ali is the only three-time lineal Heavyweight Champion and has been ranked the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time.
This sporting hero was still known as Cassius Clay when he bought the Rolls-Royce new in New Jersey in December 1970, possibly in celebration of having regained his boxing license, which had been taken away when he refused to be drafted into the United States military during the Vietnam War, citing religious principles. As punishment, he was stripped of both his boxing license and passport for nearly five years.
In August 1970, the City of Atlanta granted Ali a license and in 1974 he took part in arguably the most famous boxing match of all time, 'The Rumble in the Jungle' in which he knocked out the hitherto undefeated World Heavyweight Champion George Foreman just before the end of the eighth round. Ali's fights regularly drew record audiences, including 1 billion television viewers for 'The 'Rumble in the Jungle' and 'Thrilla in Manila', and 2 billion for 'Spinks vs Ali' in 1978.
Ali was a known Rolls-Royce enthusiast - he owned many during his life - and the prospect of owning its most expensive top-of-the-range model - the Silver Shadow Convertible - must have been irresistible. With the Silver Shadow's introduction, Rolls-Royce switched to unitary construction for the chassis/body, which meant that by the mid-1960s the market for traditional coachbuilt automobiles had been severely curtailed. Of the many hundreds of firms trading pre-war, just two - James Young and the now combined firm of H J Mulliner, Park Ward Ltd - were left to meet the demand for a coachbuilt Rolls-Royce or Bentley, though these might be more accurately termed conversions rather than 100 percent bespoke creations.
Recalling its glamorous Grandes Routières of pre-war days such as the Phantom II Continental, Rolls-Royce's final coachbuilt models - entrusted to the company's in-house coachbuilder H J Mulliner, Park Ward - were limited to just two: a two-door coupé or similar convertible, the former arriving in March 1966 and the latter in September the following year. The cars were hand built in the best traditions of British coachbuilding using only materials of the finest quality, including Wilton carpeting, Connolly hide, and burr walnut veneers, a necessarily lengthy process that took all of 20 weeks for the saloon and slightly longer for the more complex convertible. This painstaking attention to detail resulted in a price some 50% higher than the standard Silver Shadow's. Nevertheless, demand for these more glamorous alternatives to the much more numerous Silver Shadow was strong right from the start, a state of affairs that resulted in them being given their own model name - 'Corniche' - in March 1971.
This Silver Shadow Convertible was owned by Ali for some six years, passing to a second owner in the USA in 1976. The car has since found its way to Europe before being purchased by the current owner, an enthusiast in Holland. The car has never been completely restored; even the rare optional headrests (as can be seen on the archive photo) are still in place and it still retains most of the original interior, but the latter has had a colour change. The current owner has tried to keep the car original, especially the interior, while making substantial improvements.
Accompanying documentation includes copies of the original Car Specification sheet and Warranty Acknowledgement; a copy of Clay's Temporary Drivers License; Netherlands registration papers; a photo book and a copy of the photograph taken of Muhammad Ali and his close friend Diana Ross with the Rolls-Royce outside Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas before Ali's fight with Joe Bugner in February 1973.
Described by the vendor as in very good condition mechanically, this rare and exclusive Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow Convertible represents a possibly once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own not only an impressive motor car but a piece of history originally belonging to one of the world's greatest ever sportsmen.
Coachwork by H.J. Mulliner - Park Ward
ex-Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali)
Bonhams : the Zoute Sale
Estimated : € 40.000 - 60.000
Sold for € 132.250
Zoute Grand Prix 2018
Knokke - Zoute
België - Belgium
October 2018
Offered here is a significant piece of sporting and motoring history in the form of a 1970 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow Convertible, originally owned by boxing legend, Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali). Voted 'Sportsman of the Century', Ali is the only three-time lineal Heavyweight Champion and has been ranked the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time.
This sporting hero was still known as Cassius Clay when he bought the Rolls-Royce new in New Jersey in December 1970, possibly in celebration of having regained his boxing license, which had been taken away when he refused to be drafted into the United States military during the Vietnam War, citing religious principles. As punishment, he was stripped of both his boxing license and passport for nearly five years.
In August 1970, the City of Atlanta granted Ali a license and in 1974 he took part in arguably the most famous boxing match of all time, 'The Rumble in the Jungle' in which he knocked out the hitherto undefeated World Heavyweight Champion George Foreman just before the end of the eighth round. Ali's fights regularly drew record audiences, including 1 billion television viewers for 'The 'Rumble in the Jungle' and 'Thrilla in Manila', and 2 billion for 'Spinks vs Ali' in 1978.
Ali was a known Rolls-Royce enthusiast - he owned many during his life - and the prospect of owning its most expensive top-of-the-range model - the Silver Shadow Convertible - must have been irresistible. With the Silver Shadow's introduction, Rolls-Royce switched to unitary construction for the chassis/body, which meant that by the mid-1960s the market for traditional coachbuilt automobiles had been severely curtailed. Of the many hundreds of firms trading pre-war, just two - James Young and the now combined firm of H J Mulliner, Park Ward Ltd - were left to meet the demand for a coachbuilt Rolls-Royce or Bentley, though these might be more accurately termed conversions rather than 100 percent bespoke creations.
Recalling its glamorous Grandes Routières of pre-war days such as the Phantom II Continental, Rolls-Royce's final coachbuilt models - entrusted to the company's in-house coachbuilder H J Mulliner, Park Ward - were limited to just two: a two-door coupé or similar convertible, the former arriving in March 1966 and the latter in September the following year. The cars were hand built in the best traditions of British coachbuilding using only materials of the finest quality, including Wilton carpeting, Connolly hide, and burr walnut veneers, a necessarily lengthy process that took all of 20 weeks for the saloon and slightly longer for the more complex convertible. This painstaking attention to detail resulted in a price some 50% higher than the standard Silver Shadow's. Nevertheless, demand for these more glamorous alternatives to the much more numerous Silver Shadow was strong right from the start, a state of affairs that resulted in them being given their own model name - 'Corniche' - in March 1971.
This Silver Shadow Convertible was owned by Ali for some six years, passing to a second owner in the USA in 1976. The car has since found its way to Europe before being purchased by the current owner, an enthusiast in Holland. The car has never been completely restored; even the rare optional headrests (as can be seen on the archive photo) are still in place and it still retains most of the original interior, but the latter has had a colour change. The current owner has tried to keep the car original, especially the interior, while making substantial improvements.
Accompanying documentation includes copies of the original Car Specification sheet and Warranty Acknowledgement; a copy of Clay's Temporary Drivers License; Netherlands registration papers; a photo book and a copy of the photograph taken of Muhammad Ali and his close friend Diana Ross with the Rolls-Royce outside Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas before Ali's fight with Joe Bugner in February 1973.
Described by the vendor as in very good condition mechanically, this rare and exclusive Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow Convertible represents a possibly once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own not only an impressive motor car but a piece of history originally belonging to one of the world's greatest ever sportsmen.
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The mosque was commissioned by Muhammad Ali Pasha between 1830 and 1848 and is situated on the summit of the Citadel. This Ottoman mosque, the largest to be built in the first half of the 19th century, is, with its animated silhouette and twin minarets, the most visible mosque in Cairo. The mosque was built in memory of Tusun Pasha, Muhammad Ali's oldest son, who died in 1816.
The mosque was built on the site of old Mamluk buildings in Cairo's Citadel between 1830 and 1848, although not completed until the reign of Said Pasha in 1857. The architect was Yusuf Bushnak from Istanbul and its model was the Yeni Mosque
It is built on the site of Mamluk palaces destroyed at the behest of the patron, an act reminiscent of that of Saladin who wiped out all traces of Fatimid power by dismantling their palaces, and it also superseded the adjacent Mosque of al-Nasir Muhammad as the new state mosque. This first independent ruler of Egypt chose to build his state mosque entirely in the architectural style of his former overlords, the Ottomans, unlike the Mamluks who, despite their political submission to the Ottomans, tenaciously stuck to the architectural styles of the two Mamluk dynasties. But then, as an Ottoman governor of Albanian origin, his primary identification was with the Ottomans rather than his local subjects and he even had designs on the Sultanate for a time.
This mosque, with its general scheme consisting of a square sanctuary covered by a central dome flanked by four half-domes, is a conscious revival of Ottoman imperial style. The style, however, was not the only imperial aspect that the architect strived to emulate. The monumental scale of the sanctuary rivals that of Sultan Ahmet (1609-17); the adjoining courtyard surrounded by the typical domed porticoes is of a larger area than that of the Süleymaniye (1550-57); the slightly pointed dome, although of a diameter smaller than its Ottoman counterparts, has a profile equal in height to that of the Süleymaniye and higher than that of the Selimiye (1569-74); the height of the minarets is unrivaled by any of their Ottoman counterparts.
The mosque's decoration styles shows strong influence from the European and Ottoman renaissance, characteristic of Ottoman architecture in Istanbul from this period. The clock tower and abolition fountain are examples of this influence as are the alabaster panels, the interior design and the inside decoration of the dome.
More info available on <a href="http://archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.jsp?site_id=2080"ArchNet
“Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality. If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.”
― Muhammad Ali, circa 1969
Patron, begun 1848: Muhammad 'Ali (Muhammad Ali Pasha al-Mas'ud ibn Agha) 1769-1849, Wāli of Egypt, Sudan, Sham (Greater Syria), Hejaz, Morea, Thasos, Crete (r.1805-1848).
Patron, completed 1857: Sa‘id (Mohamed Sa'id Pasha) 1822-1863, 4th son of Muhammad 'Ali, Wāli of Egypt & Sudan (r.1854-1863).
Architect: Yusuf Bushnak, an otherwise unknown Greek architect from Istanbul, who is thought to have modelled it on the Mosque of Sultan Ahmed (Blue Mosque) in Istanbul.
Patron minbar: Farouk I, (Farouk bin Ahmed Fuad bin Ismail bin Ibrahim bin Muhammad Ali bin Ibrahim Agha), 1920-1965, son of Fuad I, King of Egypt & Sudan (r.1936-1952).
Islamic Monument #503
This mosque became a Court (mahkamah) from the 16th cent until the reign of Muhammad 'Ali (Muhammad Ali Pasha al-Mas'ud ibn Agha) 1769-1849, Wāli of Egypt, Sudan, Sham (Greater Syria), Hejaz, Morea, Thasos, Crete (r.1805-1848).
Patron: al-Qadi (judge) Yahya (Yahya Zayn al-Din), an Armenian dawadar (major-domo) & Amir of Sultan Gàqmaq (al-Zaher Sayf al-Din Gàqmaq) 1373-1453, Burji (Circassian) Mamluk Sultan of Egypt (r.1438-1440).
Islamic Monument #344
This photograph is from Thomas Gerald George Fahey's World War One photograph album in the Robinson Family Collection. Our thanks to Mr Tom Robinson for allowing us to scan and upload this photograph.
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