This venerable pulpit is considered one of the most beautiful and wonderful pieces of rare art created by human hands. Eight hundred years as a symbol of victory, liberation and glory, from the time it was placed in its place until it was burned.

This minbar is known for being made using the "interlocking" method, which is a method that relies on connecting wooden decorative pieces to each other without the need for fixing by nails or anything else. This is a rare, beautiful style that was known in Aleppo, where the minbar was made.

This pulpit is known among the public as the "pulpit of Salah al-Din" in relation to Sultan al-Nasir Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi, and it is a historically inaccurate name, because the one who ordered the manufacture of this pulpit was not Salah al-Din, but rather his predecessor, the king. Al-Adil Nur al-Din Mahmoud bin Zangi.

He ordered its construction in 564 AH - 1168 AD, nineteen years before the liberation of Al-Aqsa. So he made the pulpit in Aleppo and prepared it to be placed in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque after the liberation from the Crusader occupation. But the will of God Almighty decreed the death of Nur al-Din Mahmoud without being able to put him in his place.

Saladin Yusuf came after him, and he liberated Jerusalem from the Crusaders, and ordered the minbar to be brought and placed inside the Al-Qibli Mosque in Al-Aqsa Mosque, so that it would become the main minbar in Al-Aqsa.

However, this pulpit was deliberately burned by an Australian Zionist settler named Dennis Michael Rohan on August 21, 1969, about two years after the occupation of Jerusalem by the Zionists.

And that was when that settler set fire to the Al-Qibli Mosque, which led to the complete destruction of the pulpit and turning it into ashes, leaving only a few pieces of it, some of which were placed in the Islamic Museum in Al-Aqsa Mosque.

In its place, a temporary iron pulpit was placed. It remained there for about 38 years until King Hussein Bin Talal ordered it to be rebuilt in 1993. King Abdullah II Bin Al Hussein undertook all the financial costs to complete the work, so a pulpit similar to the pulpit was manufactured. The original is in the Kingdom of Jordan, with the same method and materials, and it consists of thousands of beautiful decorative pieces, and it was put in place in 2007.

It is mentioned that the just King Noureddine Mahmoud had made three similar pulpits at that time, one of which was placed in the Aleppo Mosque, the other was allocated to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the third is located today in the Ibrahimi Mosque in the city of Hebron.

The writing found on the pulpit is divided into two parts:

A- A historical inscription like the one to the left of the preacher as he ascends the pulpit: "In the name of God, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful. He enjoined his deed to the poor servant for his mercy, thankful for his grace, the fighter on his way, stationed to uphold his religion, the just king, Nur al-Din, the cornerstone of Islam and Muslims." The just one of the oppressed is one of the oppressors, Abu Al-Qasm, Mahmoud bin Zangi, Ibn Aq Sanqur.

C- There is the following inscription on the neck of the pulpit: "In the name of God, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful. He worked during the days of our Maulana, the Just and Righteous King, Ismail bin Muhammad Rukn." It is more likely that Rukn may be "Zinki".

D- The participants in making it recorded their names on the pulpit door as follows: “It was made by Ibn Dhafer al-Halabi, may God have mercy on him. It was made by Suleiman bin Ma’ali, may God have mercy on him. It was made by Hamid bin Dhafer, may God have mercy on him. Yahya Al-Halabi, may God have mercy on him.”