Shrines of saints in Libya

Abstract

Shrines of saints in Libya"Archaeological study Marih "Assistant Professor Dr. Saadi Ibrahim al DarajiCenter revival of Arab Scientific Heritage University of Baghdad(Abstract Search)We can be guided to many tombs in Libya through the calculations which represented by many writers in the Othman age . one of the important writes came in the book " the signs to some of western Tripoli tombs" which was wrote by abd alsalam bin Othman al tarabolsi and he was done of writing it in 1904 1682 and he collected all of the tombs layed in the entire cost line between Tripoli and misrata . the main purpose of this journey to identify the holders and religious and social places and due to the importance of the book it was translated by the Italian writer Antonio cesaro During the Italian occupation , and he visited all the tombs which where mentioned in the book.Cesaro recorded in his journey many notes and he collected 318 tomb mentioned and 121 was having a dome.We can defined the tombs in Libya into two parts : the first independent tombs and most of them are in the ancient grave yards spreaded inside cities of the coast like Tripoli , binghazi zelten , misrata and the cities which lies in the desert like ougla , sabha marzoq and gat.An example for these tombs sedi ghazi , sedi kharbesh , sedi dawod , sedi houssaien . or buried in houses in the city like bin ghazi which have many spreaded in it like sedi moamen , sedi belkhier , sedi al waheshi.The second part is a part of the masjids and corners which was named to those people who came from from different Islamic countries and most of them renewed or removed in the seventh or eighth of the last century and a few of them left and kept its old design.