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ING KINGDOM, AND THY DOMINION ENDURETH THROUGHOUT ALL GENERATIONS/

Al-Ghazali spent many hours for many years under the shadow of this great building, and it was in the minaret of Jesus that he had long medita tions. The minaret of Jesus, according to H. Sala din, 1 was built in the eleventh century, shortly be fore the time of Al-Ghazali’s visit. Did he ever find or understand the inscription on the gate and meditate on that Prophet whose kingdom has no end and no frontier?


 * " Manuel d Art Musulman," Vol. I, Paris, 1907.

"Then came the immediate breaking up of the Seljukian Empire into a number of independent principalities. Syria, Palestine,