Proper noun
Kairouan (uncountable)
A major city of the Umayyads, in Tunisia.
A 2004 geometrical analysis of earlier research into the Great Mosque of Kairouan reveals a consistent application of the golden ratio throughout the design, according to Boussora and Mazouz. Source: Internet
Ibn Abi Zar, p. 87. Zaynab was the daughter of a wealthy merchant from Houara, who is said to be from Kairouan in origin. Source: Internet
They also capture buildings and monuments in places like Gibraltar, Algiers, Biskra and Constantine in Algeria, Carthage, El-Djem and Kairouan in Tunisia. Source: Internet
The hypostyle prayer hall in the Great Mosque of Kairouan Often, a limited part of the prayer hall is sanctified formally as a masjid in the sharia sense (although the term masjid is also used for the larger mosque complex as well). Source: Internet
In the Kairouan region hundreds of basins were constructed to store water for the raising of horses. Source: Internet