Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The pulpit in a mosque.

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  • noun A pulpit in a mosque from which the leader of prayers delivers the khutbah.

Etymologies

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From Arabic منبر (minbar), from نبر (nabara) ‘raise’.

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Examples

  • A short walk away is Al Maridani mosque, where pieces of the ancient mimbar were also stolen.

    Journalism Boot Camp: Booming Islamic Antiquities Market in the Gulf Leads to Thefts in Old Cairo Mosques 2009

  • Nearby, valuable pieces of the mimbar (pulpit) from the 15th century Mamaluk mosque Mangak Al Youssefy were stolen piece by piece without anyone noticing.

    Journalism Boot Camp: Booming Islamic Antiquities Market in the Gulf Leads to Thefts in Old Cairo Mosques 2009

  • Whenever he s would deliver a sermon or speak to the people he would lean on it; but when a mimbar was brought for him, and he ascended it, a cry was heard from the date palm the way a she camel cries when it separates from its offspring.

    Archive 2007-12-01 mkhalfan@gmail.com 2007

  • Whenever he s would deliver a sermon or speak to the people he would lean on it; but when a mimbar was brought for him, and he ascended it, a cry was heard from the date palm the way a she camel cries when it separates from its offspring.

    The Pillar of Hannana Moans mkhalfan@gmail.com 2007

  • With these prohibitions should be connected the somewhat unintelligible fact that the most pious Caliphs sat upon thrones (_mimbar_, "president's chair") of clay.

    Christianity and Islam C.H. Becker

  • The pulpit was then introduced under Christian influence, which thus completely transformed the chair (_mimbar_) of the ancient Arab judges and rulers and made it a piece of church furniture; the Christian _cancelli_ or choir screens were adopted and the mosque was thus developed.

    Christianity and Islam C.H. Becker

  • There is a Mihráb in the wall: but no proper mimbar or pulpit, three raised steps doing duty for it.

    The Faith of Islam Edward Sell

  • Bull, which no Englishman must even look upon; had mastered the thieves'-patter of the changars; had taken a Eusufzai horse-thief alone near Attock; and had stood under the mimbar-board of a Border mosque and conducted service in the manner of a Sunni Mollah.

    Plain Tales from the Hills Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • On a recent Friday, at the Islamic Cultural Center of New York, Imam Mohamed Shamsi Ali climbed the narrow stairs to the top of the mimbar, or pulpit, and began his sermon in English.

    SFGate: Top News Stories By RACHEL ZOLL 2010

  • "Iss raah pe jo sab pe guzarti hai who guzri Tanhan pase zindaan kabhi ruswa sare bazaar Garje hain bahut sheikh sar-egosha-e-mimbar Kadke hain bahut ahle hakam bar sare darbar" (I go through all that one goes through while on this path At times alone in jail, sometime defamed in the bazaar The sheikh denounces me from the pulpit And the ruler lashes out at me in his durbar).

    The Times of India 2010

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