The mausoleum of Imam Nawawi is in Nawa in
Deraa province near the Jordanian border. (Image
grab from YouTube video)
Source : english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/01/08/Extremists-destroy-13th-century-Muslim-tomb-in-Syria.html
8 January 2015
Al- Qaeda- linked Nusra Front blows up 800 - year-
old mausoleum of leading Islamic scholar , Imam
Nawawi , in Deraa province .
The Syrian branch of al-Qaeda , the al- Nusra Front ,
has destroyed a 13th century tomb of a revered
Islamic scholar in southern Syria , a group
monitoring the violence has said .
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on
Wednesday , the mausoleum of Imam Nawawi in
Nawa, near the Jordanian border, had been
destroyed by the armed group .
The Syrian government ' s Islamic endowments
ministry, which has lost control of much of Deraa
province to rebel groups , condemned the bombing
as an attack on the " country' s history and
heritage" .
In a report published in late December, the UN said
290 sites across the country had been directly
affected by fighting , of which 24 had been
destroyed , 104 severely damaged , 85 moderately
damaged and 77 possibly damaged .
Fighters belonging to the al-Qaeda affiliate and its
rival, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
( ISIL) , regard the reverence of tombs as
tantamount to idolatry and have demolished
shrines.
Source : m.aljazeera.com/story/2015189829785527
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