Tomb of Shaikh Qadib al-Ban
قبر شيخ قديب البان
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Location: W. W. Mosul, outside Bab Sinjar
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Date of Construction: 573/ 1177-1178 1123/1711 and 1358/ 1958
Current Status: restored 1965, partially destroyed
Date of Destruction: July 26 2014
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Sources: Daywahchi, Josef Meri, The Cult of the Saints among Muslims and Jews in Medieval Syria (2002) 97-98, Monuments of Mosul, Ibn al-Mustawfi, Tarikh Irbil, ed. S Saqqar, II volumes (Baghdad, 1980), H. Corbin, Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn Arabi (Princeton, 2014)
Dedicated to the famous antinomion saint, Shaikh Qadib al-Ban al-Mawsili much of the building was destroyed by an IED in 2014. Prior to its destruction, this structure was rebuilt twice in 1711 and 1957.