Minaret
The minaret is an architectural element of the Mosquée S. It generally acts of a high tower exceeding all the other buildings. Its goal is to provide a point raised to the Muezzin for the call to the prayer.
Three Arab words derive from the same Arab root meaning to announce:
- call to the prayer (Arab: rear RTL أذان)
- Muezzin (Arab: rear RTL مُؤَذِّن) passed through Turkish muezzin .
- minaret (Arab: rear RTL مِئْذَنة)
The French word derives from another Arab word indicating a headlight or a projector (Arab: rear RTL مَنارة, headlight ) while passing through Turkish minare .
The minarets have forms very varied according to the genius of each architecture.
To specify that the minaret recommended forever by the Prophet. Indeed, this innovation date completion of the first century of Hégire.
However, the theologists of Islam were unanimous to judge the minaret like a good innovation religious . It is necessary to know however which there exist today certain minority individuals who condemn the existence of the minarets under pretext that this innovation imitates the bell-towers of the Christian churches.