The Sidi Bel Abbas sanctuary is a Muslim holy place located in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in Northern Africa, in the El Usa plaza.[1] The structure was built to commemorate 12th-century Moroccan saint Abu al-Abbas as-Sabti.[2]
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This structure was burned by unknown parties in April 2006. This action was widely believed to have been committed as an anti-Muslim act, particularly as several other attacks on Muslim religious centers in Spain occurred in 2005–2006.[3][4] However, others have hypothesized that the sanctuary was burned by Salafist elements, who doctrinally object to the veneration of any human.[5]
Sources edit
- Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Spain: International Religious Freedom Report 2006 U.S. Department of State.
References edit
- ^ Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana: etimologías sánscrito, hebreo, griego, latín, árabe, lenguas indígenas americanas, etc. : versiones de la mayoría de las voces en francés, italiano, inglés, alemán, portugués, catalán, esperanto. J. Espasa. 1928. p. 276.
- ^ Bencheneb, H. (1995). "al-Sabtī". In Bearman, P.; Bianquis, Th.; Bosworth, C.E.; van Donzel, E.; Heinrichs, W.P. (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam. Vol. VIII (2nd ed.). Leiden, Netherlands: E. J. BRILL. pp. 691–692. ISBN 9004098348.
- ^ Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Spain: International Religious Freedom Report 2006 U.S. Department of State.
- ^ Paul A. Marshall (2000). Religious Freedom in the World. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 370–. ISBN 978-0-7425-6213-4.
- ^ Dr. Javier Jordan & Dr. Humberto Trujillo Favourable situations for the jihadist recruitment: The neighbourhood of Principe Alfonso (Ceuta, Spain) Athena Paper, Vol. 1, No 3 27 November 2006.
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