Hassan II Mosque the government lacked funds for such a grand project. Much of the financing was by public subscription. Twelve million people donated to the cause, with a receipt and certificate given to every donor. The smallest contribution was 5 DH. In addition to public donations and those from business establishments and Arab countries (such as Kuwait and Saudi Arabia), western countries provided construction loans. In the words of the authors of the book "Morocco Country Study Guide", the Hassan II Mosque "undeniably marks the continuity of a modernized ancestral art and bears the sign of innovations that are due not only
Hassan II (Imam) Hassan II (Imam) Ḥasan ʿAlā Zikrihi's Salām (Persian/) or Hassan II was the hereditary Imam of the Nizari Ismailis from 1162 until 1166. From his capital of Alamut he ruled parts of Persia and Syria. His chief subordinate in Syria was Rashid ad-Din Sinan, the Old Man of the Mountain. In 1164 Hassan, leading the Nizari sect of Ismaili Islam, proclaimed the "Qiyamat", the abrogation of Sharia law. The concept of Qiyamah in exoteric Islam means the End of the World and the Day of Judgment. But in the esoteric interpretations of Ismaili Islam, Qiyamah is the beginning of an