Assertion: al hadba minaret | /r/HasAspect | lower story
Facets:
value: with sloping sides
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: The al-Qayrawān minaret, erected under the Aghlabids, has a lower story with sloping sides and seems to have been modelled on the ancient Roman lighthouse at nearby Salakta, and the cuboid shafts of the western Islamic lands seem to have evolved alongside Christian church towers, much as the cuboid Syrian minarets of the fifth/eleventh century appear to have been derived from earlier church towers in that region.