Raqqada

Raqqada or Raqqâda (rear RTL رقادة) is the site of the second Capitale of the Dynastie of the Aghlabides () located at 10 kilometers in the south-west of Kairouan (Tunisia). The site shelters the Islamic National museum of art now.

History

In 876, the ninth emir aghlabide Ibrahim II tests the need to change residence to find a place calm with the shelter of the noise of the city. The new city is equipped with several Palais and a Mosquée. Aghlabides found there a factory of Textile S and Papier S to feed the House of wisdom and sciences ( Bayt El Hikma ). At certain times, Raqqada becomes even larger than Kairouan.

In 909, Ubayd Allah Al-Mahdi, founder of the dynasty of the Fatimides which had settled with Kairouan, settle finally in Raqqada. It chooses another capital and founds the town of Mahdia. He proclaims itself Caliph into 909.

The July 7th 969, the troops of the fourth caliph fatimide Al-Muizz Li-DIN Allah enter to Fostat in Egypt. The caliph founds close to this city a new capital which it name Cairo . Al-driven `izz would have made shave Raqqada after the construction of Cairo.

After 1960, one builds on the site of a score of Hectare S a presidential palace in the middle of the few still visible vestiges. This palate now shelters the Islamic National museum of art of Raqqada.

Islamic national museum of art

The entry of the museum is reserved for the Grande mosque of Kairouan and presents a reproduction of sound Mihrab.

The following part present of the collections of Ceramic S dating from the periods when Raqqada was occupied (). Another part present of the collections Numismatique S. the most important collection is that of the Coran S penmanships.

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