Mihrab

S 3:37 So her lord accepted her well and she caused her to sprout well and we put her in the care of Zakariyya. Whenever Zakariyya entered the mihrab upon her he found provision with her. He said: Maryam, whence do you have this? She said: It is from Allah. Allah gives provision to whom he wills without account.

Maryam was supposedly lodged in the Temple; this verse reflects that idea. See: The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew

S 3:39 Then the angels called him while he was standing, praying in the mihrab. Allah gives you good news of Yahya, confirming a word from Allah, and a chief and a continent man and a prophet among the righteous.

S 19:11 Then he went out to his people from the mihrab and indicated to them to praise in the morning and in the evening.

S 38:21  And has the news of the adversary come to you when they climbed the mihrab?

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مِحْرَاب • (miḥrāb) m (plural مَحَارِيب (maḥārīb))

1. the prayer chamber of the imam in a mosque or instead, a symbolic niche in the wall in the direction of the qibla; mihrab quotations ▲

   • 14th century CE, ʾIbn Kaṯīr, al-Bidāya wan-Nihāya [The Beginning and the End]:

     وقد قال الشافعي رحمه الله تعالى: إن لم تكن العلماء العاقلون أولياء الله فلا أعلم لله وليا، وكان يؤم الناس للصلاة في محراب الحنابلة هو والشيخ العماد، […]

     And Ash-Shāfiʿī — God, He be exalted, have mercy on him — had said: If the prudent scholars are not the allies of God, then I know not of any ally for God; and he used to lead the people in prayer in the mihrab of the Hanbalis, along with Sheikh Al-ʿImād; […]

   • 2008, Zulaikha Amin Hussain, Mawsūʿat Yanābīʿ al-Maʿrifa [Encyclopedia of the Fountains of Knowledge]:

     ونري المحاريب التي شيدها المماليك في مصر والشام من أبدع المحاريب الرخامية، حيث تنتهي تجويفة المحراب بطاقية على شكل نصف قبـة مكسوة بأشرطة رخامية متعددة الألوان.

     And we see the mihrabs the Mamluks erected in Egypt and Syria (the Levant) are from among the finest made marble mihrabs, where the hollow of the mihrab ends with an arch in the shape of a semi-dome covered with multicoloured marble bands.

2. the chief, uppermost or most honorable sitting place, throne room, the highest chamber; sanctum of a king quotations ▲

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 34:13:

     يَعْمَلُونَ لَهُ مَا يَشَاءُ مِنْ مَحَارِيبَ وَتَمَاثِيلَ وَجِفَانٍ كَالْجَوَابِ وَقُدُورٍ رَاسِيَاتٍ

     yaʕmalūna lahu mā yašāʔu min maḥārība watamāṯīla wajifānin kāljawābi waqudūrin rāsiyātin

     They made for him what he willed of throne rooms and statues, and bowls like watering troughs and pots unwieldy.

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 38:21:

     وَهَلْ أَتَىٰكَ نَبَئُوا ٱلْخَصْمِ إِذْ تَسَوَّرُوا ٱلْمِحْرَابَ

     wahal ʔatāka nabaʔū l-ḵaṣmi ʔiḏ tasawwarū l-miḥrāba

     And has news come to you of the litigants when they scaled up the sanctum of King [David]?

3. (Jewish antiquity) oracle (the sanctuary, or most holy place in the temple); sanctum sanctorum quotations ▲

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 3:37-39:

     […] كُلَّمَا دَخَلَ عَلَيْهَا زَكَرِيَّا ٱلْمِحْرَابَ وَجَدَ عِنْدَهَا رِزْقًا قَالَ يَٰمَرْيَمُ أَنَّىٰ لَكِ هَٰذَا […] فَنَادَتْهُ ٱلْمَلَٰئِكَةُ وَهُوَ قَائِمٌ يُّصَلِّي فِي ٱلْمِحْرَابِ أَنَّ ٱللهَ يُبَشِّرُكَ بِيَحْيَىٰ مُصَدِّقًا بِكَلِمَةٍ مِّنَ ٱللهِ […]

     […] kullamā daḵala ʕalayhā zakariyyā l-miḥrāba wajada ʕindahā rizqan qāla yāmaryamu ʔannā laki hāḏā […] fanādathu l-malāʔikatu wahuwa qāʔimun yuṣallī fī l-miḥrābi ʔanna llāha yubašširuka biyaḥyā muṣaddiqan bikalimatin mina llāhi […]

     […] Every time Zechariah entered upon her in the oracle (inner sanctuary of the Temple) he found with her provisions. [One day] he said: O Mary, whence have you this? […] So the angels called out to him, and [at that time] he was standing in the oracle supplicating, [saying]: God brings you glad tidings of John, one who would verify a Word from God […]

   • 1865 CE, Bible (SVD), First Book of Kings, 6:19:

     وَهَيَّأَ مِحْرَابًا فِي وَسَطِ ٱلْبَيْتِ مِنْ دَاخِلْ لِّيَضَعَ هُنَاكَ تَابُوتَ عَهْدِ ٱلرَّبِّ.

     wahayyaʔa miḥrāban fī wasaṭi l-bayti min dāḵil liyaḍaʕa hunāka tābūta ʕahdi r-rabbi.

     And he prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.  محراب - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

   
   
   
   

   مِحراب ( اسم ) :- مِحراب المسجِد: مَقام الإِمام

   - mihrab; (prayer) niche

   محراب ( اسم )

   - Mihraab: A recess in the masjid that indicates the direction of salaah.

   محراب

   - chancel; housing; Mihraab; mihrab; sanctuary

   المحراب

   - Apse; apsis; concha; niche  محراب In English - Translation and Meaning in English Arabic Dictionary of All terms Page 1