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This mosque in the old city of Damascus is named after Hisham ibn Ammar al-Sulami, one of the great scholars of Damascus in the third Islamic century. He…
This mosque in the old city of Damascus is named after Hisham ibn Ammar al-Sulami, one of the great scholars of Damascus in the third Islamic century. He served as preacher of the Umayyad Mosque and was a renowned teacher of the Qur'an and hadith, and he is one of the two famous transmitters of the reading of Ibn Amir, the recitation tradition of Damascus. Hisham passed away in 245 AH. The mosque honours his memory in the city where he taught, and it serves as a local place of prayer.