{"id":486,"date":"2006-01-04T22:15:08","date_gmt":"2006-01-04T21:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2006\/01\/04\/saudis_offer_funds_to_repair_delhi_jamia_mosque"},"modified":"2025-10-10T22:22:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T21:22:49","slug":"saudis_offer_funds_to_repair_delhi_jamia_mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/01\/04\/saudis_offer_funds_to_repair_delhi_jamia_mosque","title":{"rendered":"Saudis offer funds to repair Delhi Jami&#8217;a mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting story I found on the BBC&#39;s website: the king of Saudi Arabia offering to do much-needed repairs to the Jama Mosque in Delhi.  The imam has advised the Saudis to approach the government, and the king&#39;s desire to &quot;fund education in India&quot; is likely to attract the attention of the security services &#8211; and, I would imagine, a large section of the Indian Islamic scholarly community.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BBC NEWS - Saudi offer to fix Delhi mosque\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/south_asia\/4581056.stm\">BBC NEWS &#8211; Saudi offer to fix Delhi mosque<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wonder what the Saudis would think of this bit of what the imam says needs doing to the mosque:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nImam [Ahmed] Bukhari said the minarets of the 17th century mosque needed to be repaired.<br \/>\n&quot;We also need to <strong>polish the tombs<\/strong> and repair other parts of the structure.&quot;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Incidentally, Jama Mosque, however it&#39;s spelt, does not mean &quot;Grand Mosque&quot;, but rather congregational or Friday mosque.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting story I found on the BBC&#39;s website: the king of Saudi Arabia offering to do much-needed repairs to the Jama Mosque in Delhi. The imam has advised the Saudis to approach the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-7Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42640,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/42640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}