The "Mimbar," or pulpit, was fashioned out of a simple palm-tree trunk on which the Prophet mounted when he preached his sermons.
The Mimbar, or pulpit is so placed that the speaker can face Mecca.
We learn from Ibn-Khaldoun and many other writers, that the throne of the Mussulman sultans was the mimbar, takcht, or cursi.
The Moorish mimbar or pulpit of the mosque of Cordova was very wonderful.
The preacher standing on the second step of the Mimbar, or pulpit, with a large club or staff in his hand, delivers his sermon.