Bab al-Sahira Cemetery

Bab al-Sahira Cemetery
مقبرة باب الساهر
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Location	Jerusalem
Country	Israel/Palestine
Coordinates	31°46′58.8″N35°14′1.5″E / 31.783000°N 35.233750°E / 31.783000; 35.233750

Bāb as-Sāhira Cemetery or al-Sahira Cemetery an Islamic cemetery in Jerusalem, a few meters north of the city wall's Bāb as-Sāhira (al- or es-Sahira, Herod's Gate). ^[1] It was previously called the Mujahideen Cemetery. ^[2]

Along with Mamilla and Bāb ar-Raḥma Cemeteries, it includes graves for those in Saladin's army who died in battle ^[3] (for al-fatḥ aṣ-Ṣalāḥī, 'the triumph of Saladdin'). ^[4]

References

1. Maoz, Moshe (2021). Jerusalem: Points of Friction - And Beyond. Brill. p. 146. ISBN   9789004480674.
2. al-'Asali, Kamal J; Natsheh, Yusuf (2000). "The Cemeteries of Ottoman Jerusalem". Ottoman Jerusalem: The Living City. Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL). p. 283. ISBN   978-1-901435-03-0 . Retrieved 12 June 2025.
3. Grabar, Oleg; Ḳedar, B.Z. (2009). Where Heaven and Earth Meet: Jerusalem's Sacred Esplanade. University of Texas Press. p. 170. ISBN   978-0-292-72272-9. Mamilla to the west [of Jerusalem], al-Sahira to the north, and at the Golden Gate immediately to the east of the Noble Sanctuary. Epitaphs of several amirs in Saladin's army have been recovered from these cemeteries, many of them Kurds like him, who had fallen in battle and been brought to Jerusalem for burial.
4. Gerber, Haim (2008). Remembering and Imagining Palestine. Springer. p. 64. ISBN   978-0-230-58391-7. the conquest by Salah al-Din (al-fath al-Salahi)