Funded by King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad is the largest mosque in Pakistan.

The Faisal Mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan in a relatively unusual design fuses contemporary lines with the more traditional look of an Arab Bedouin's tent, with its large triangular prayer hall and four minarets.

The Faisal Mosque in Islamabad is named after him as well.

Image: Faisal mosque2. jpg | Faisal Mosque Minaret, Islamabad, Pakistan

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From the clubhouse, there is a panoramic view of Faisal Mosque, the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi, and the course itself.

The Faisal Mosque is the largest mosque in Pakistan, located in the national capital city of Islamabad.

The Faisal Mosque is conceived as the National Mosque of Pakistan and named after the late King Faisal bin Abdul-Aziz of Saudi Arabia, who supported and financed the project.

The Faisal Mosque was the largest mosque in the world from 1986 until 1993, when it was overtaken in size upon the completion of the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco.

Subsequent expansions of the Masjid al-Haram ( Grand Mosque ) of Mecca and the Al-Masjid al-Nabawi ( Prophet's Mosque ) in Medina, Saudi Arabia during the 1990s relegated Faisal Mosque to fourth place in terms of size.

The Faisal Mosque is the work of Turkish architect Vedat Dalokay, who won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture with this project.

The shape of the Faisal Mosque is an eight-sided concrete shell inspired by a desert Beduoin's tent and the cubic Kaaba in Mecca, flanked by four unusual minarets inspired by Turkish architecture.

The Faisal Mosque has covered area of.

* 1975 – Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a mentally ill nephew.

* 1964 – King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother King Faisal.

* August 23 – King Faisal I of Iraq is crowned in Baghdad.

* March 25 – King Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by his nephew ; the killer is beheaded on June 18.

Over the objections of General Murray ( Donald Wolfit ), he is sent by Mr. Dryden ( Claude Rains ) of the Arab Bureau to assess the prospects of Prince Faisal ( Alec Guinness ) in his revolt against the Turks.

Promoted to colonel and immediately ordered home, his usefulness at an end to both Faisal and the British diplomats, a dejected Lawrence is driven away in a staff car.

* Tafas – Lawrence's guide to Faisal is based on his actual guide, Sheikh Obeid el-Rashid, of the Hazimi branch of the Beni Salem, whom Lawrence referred to as Tafas several times in Seven Pillars.

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In response, Faisal cabled to the Iraqi Legation in London: " Although everything is normal now in Iraq, and in spite of my broken health, I shall await the arrival of Sir Francis Humphrys in Bagdad, but there is no reason for further anxiety.

In other words, Prince Faisal was backed by the religious establishment, which is headed by the Al Shaykh the descendants of Muhammad bin Abd al Wahab.

Early in his reign, when faced by demands for a written constitution for the country, King Faisal responded that " our constitution is the Quran.

King Faisal also developed a close alliance with Pakistan, where he is regarded highly for his foreign policy and pan-Islamic ideals.

One of the two major air force bases in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, is named " PAF Base Faisal " in honour of King Faisal.

King Faisal's daughter, Haifa bint Faisal, is married to Bandar bin Sultan.

His another daughter, Lolowah bint Faisal is a prominent activist for women's education in Saudi Arabia.

Faisal Alam, founder of American Gay Muslim group Al-Fatiha, argued in the magazine Queer that Iran was condemned before the facts were certain, and in 2003 the United Nations Committee Against Torture noted that " from different and reliable sources that there currently is no active policy of prosecution of charges of homosexuality in Iran ".

He is currently the leader of the Iraqi Constitutional Monarchy political party and claims to be the legitimate heir to the position of King of Iraq, based on his relationship to the last monarch, the late King Faisal II.

The Court was previously dominated by conservative religious figures and the former Chief Justice, Faisal Ahmad Shinwari, in particular was described as " ultra conservative.

Initial reports described Faisal bin Musaid as " mentally deranged.

The Saudi Arabia did not welcome the succession of East Pakistan, and its communism was strongly opposed by the King Faisal who had strong anti-Communism views.

In 1983, the Arab Scientific Association, a PLO affiliated organization led by Faisal Husseini, rented a part of the house.

It was then rented and renovated by Faisal Husseini.

Faisal Husseini, former Palestinian Authority Minister for Jerusalem, compared the al-Aqsa intifada following the Oslo peace process to the tactic of coming out of the Trojan Horse used by the Greeks in the myth of the Trojan War.

By the 1970s, as a result of oil wealth and the modernization of the country initiated by King Faisal, important changes to Saudi society were under way and the power of the ulema was in decline.

In 1958, a year after Saddam had joined the Ba ' ath party, army officers led by General Abd al-Karim Qasim overthrew Faisal II of Iraq in the 14 July Revolution.

In the September 2006 presidential elections Saleh was challenged by a coalition of five leading opposition parties, the Joint Meeting Parties ( JMP ), which fronted the candidate Faisal bin Shamlan.

He convinces Faisal to provide fifty men, led by a sceptical Sherif Ali.

Faisal was originally to be portrayed by Laurence Olivier ; Guinness, who performed in other David Lean films, got the part when Olivier dropped out.

For instance, Bentley interviews Faisal in late 1917, after the fall of Aqaba, saying the United States has not yet entered the war, yet America had been in the war for several months by that point in time.

These hopes were expressed in the Faisal-Weizmann Agreement, which was signed by soon-to-be Iraqi ruler Faisal I and the Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann, which called for a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

As a consequence of Saud's scheme, he was forced by senior members of the Saudi royal family to informally cede most of his powers to his brother, King Faisal, an advocate of pan-Islamic unity rather than Arab nationalism and a major opponent of Nasser.

However, the uprising was predominantly led by community councils led by Hanan Ashrawi, Faisal Husseini and Haidar Abdel-Shafi, that promoted independent networks for education ( underground schools as the regular schools were closed by the military in reprisal for the uprising ), medical care, and food aid.

He was succeeded as ambassador by Turki al Faisal.

The bomb had been planted by Faisal Shahzad.

# 1958 Faisal II of Iraq executed by firing squad under the command of Captain Abdus Sattar As Sab, a member of the coup d ' état led by Colonel Abdul Karim Qassim.