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unusual facts about Moulay Idriss



Minaret

;Morocco: Typically, a single square minaret; notable exceptions include a few octagonal minarets in northern cities -Chefchaouen, Tetouan, Rabat, Ouezzane, Asilah, and Tangier- and the round minaret of Moulay Idriss.


see also

Volubilis

Moulay Idriss established the eponymous town of Moulay Idriss Zerhoun on a nearby hillside in 789 but was assassinated in Volubilis in 791 on the orders of the caliph of Baghdad, Harun al-Rashid.

The American writer Edith Wharton visited in 1920 and highlighted what she saw as the contrast between "two dominations looking at each other across the valley", the ruins of Volubilis and "the conical white town of Moulay Idriss, the Sacred City of Morocco".