The corner is located below the tribal Chapel, where it is accessed through the stairs located in front of the tribal Chapel, which leads to a long hallway ending with a giant gate of closed doors, known in the old days as the door of the Prophet, this gate leads to the corner of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which is used today as a library.

It is believed that the construction date dates back to the Fatimid period as part of the preparations of the Fatimid Garrison to fortify the gates of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the city of Jerusalem before the Crusader invasion, where it was built as a small fortress and a defensive tower protecting the door of the Prophet ( double door ) and then the occupation of the city by the Crusaders, which lasted for ۸۸ a year until the Ayyubids, led by Saladin, liberated the city and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, where he ordered to turn this fort into a corner for Sufism, the first to take over its sheikdom was Sheikh Abdullah Al-Shashi from Tashkent (Uzbekistan ) .

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In 1345, the traveler Ibn Fadl Allah al-Umari came to Jerusalem, where he visited the corner (it was then called Al-Khanqah al-Salihiyah ) and said that there was a Sheikh known as khatni and that the corner became known to him, i.e., the khatni angle, as for the meaning of khatni: so according to the control (formation) of the word in the original manuscript that mentioned the name of khatni, the letter h above it

Khatn country in Turkmenistan

The deceased Ibn al-Athir mentioned 1234 um, that the country of Turkestan, namely Kashgar, balasagon, khotn, Taraz and others from neighboring countries beyond the river, the conclusion : the khotnite corner is attributed to a scientist who came from the country of Turkmenistan north of Iran, and it is pronounced the annexation of Kha.



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