SULEYMAN MOSQUE

After the visit, you will be able to walk to this mosque located a little lower on the right on the way back. At the entrance is a small Koranic school. The mosque (the oldest of Kabaw) is built not far from the old Al-Kachkacha Synagogue. Abdullah al-Baruni, father of Suleyman al-Baruni, a hero of the Italian war, rests near the mosque. Suleyman al-Baruni (1870-1940), born in Jadou, was a recognized poet and one of the major figures in the fight against Italian colonization in Libya. It was harder to coordinate than in Cyrenaica where it was cemented under the banner of the brotherhood of La, behind the great Chief of war Omar Moukhtar. In May 1913, the Berber of the jebel Nefousa Suleyman al-Baruni lost a battle against the Italians and fled to Turkey from where he returned in 1915 to the head of a provisional republic in Jebel Nefousa and then, allied to Ramadan al-Suwayhli who had done the same in Misratha, he directs for a short period the Libya Autonomous Republic with the backing of the Italians who had it. circumscribed the duties.