[426] A.H. 484; it is the inscription on the north wall. On the south wall of the same wing there is an inscription, which probably alludes to some reparation and gives the date A.H. 874 = A.D. 1469. The inscription on the minaret is in the name of the Inalid Inaldi (A.H. 503-536 = A.D. 1109-1141). Two decrees are built into the north wall of the wide central aisle; they are dated respectively A.H. 639 = A.D. 1241, and A.H. 731 = A.D. 1330. The east wing of the ḥaram bears an inscription on the north wall dated A.H. 550 = A.D. 1155, and another on the same wall dated A.H. 1094 = A.D. 1683, while upon the east gable there is an inscription dated A.H. 735 = A.D. 1334. An inscription on the west arcade of the ṣaḥn is dated A.H. 518 = A.D. 1124, and the eastern arcade is dated A.H. 559 = A.D. 1163, while a second inscription contains the name of Abû ‘al-Qâsin ‘Ali, who died about A.H. 575 = A.D. 1179. On the east gate there is an inscription dated A.H. 575 = A.D. 1179. The madrasah at the north-west corner of the ṣaḥn is dated A.H. 935 = A.D. 1528; the wall to the east of the north door (behind the arcade) A.H. 625 = A.D. 1228; the small madrasah court to the north of this wall A.H. 595 = A.D. 1198, and the north doorway of this madrasah A.H. 576 = A.D. 1180. [427] _Orientalische Literaturzeitung_, September 1911, p. 399. In A.D. 1046 Nâṣiri Khusrau saw a mosque here which had marked resemblances with the existing building. Ed. Schefer, p. 28. [428] Sarre-Herzfeld, _Euphrat-und Tigris-Gebiet_, vol. i, p. 17; and vol. iii, Plate 88. [429] _Mission en Mésopotamie_, vol. i, Plate 20. [430] Ibn al-Athîr, vol. v, p. 224. The governor of ‘Irâq, Yûsuf ibn Umar, was imprisoned in the Khaḍrâ by Yazîd III, A.D. 744. See too Lammens, ‘La Bâdia et la Ḥîra,’ _Mélanges de la Fac. Or._, vol. iv, p. 100. [431] _Futûḥ_, p. 284. The palace of Ḥadjdjâdj in Wâsiṭ was called al-Qabbet al-khaḍrâ on account of its green dome; ibid., p. 290. [432] Yâqût, vol. iv, p. 121. [433] Professor Musil also heard the name; he writes it Aslâm and applies it to the southern end of the Ṭâr. _Proceedings of the K. Akad. der Wiss. in Wien_, No. 1, 1913, p. 10. Bir Aslâm appears in Captain Leachman’s map. _Journal of the R. Geog. Soc._, 1911. [434] Ibn al-Athîr, vol. ii, p. 349. [435] Ibn al-Athîr, vol. iv, p. 328. Yâqût’s alternate site, between ‘Ain al-Tamr and Damascus, must therefore be rejected. Ibn al-Athîr refers to it in this passage in connexion with the revolt of Shabîb, during the vicegerency of Ḥadjdjâdj. [436] Flandin-Coste, _Voyage en Perse_, p. 27. [437] Dieulafoy, _L’Art antique de la Perse_, vol. iv, Fig. 26. [438] ‘Genesis der islamischen Kunst,’ _Der Islam_, vol. i, p. 112. [439] Butler, _Ancient Architecture in Syria_, Sect. B, pt. i, p. 32.