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  • View from the embrasure of an open window at the top of the Nakhl Fortress, Oman.  Fortress walls are ! meter thick. Grove of palm trees and distant mountain seen through an iron grille.  Wooden shutters stand open, sunlight casting diagonal shadows from the grill.
    View from window grill at Nakhl Fortress
  • Mashrabeyya, wooden screens, Bayt el Razzaz, Cairo; interior view of one window showing outline of a traditionally shaped ewer.
    Mashrabeyya_wooden_grill_EGY19194452...jpg
  • Mosque, tomb, and madrasa of Qala'un, Cairo, built 1283-85. Interior, mashrabeyya doors, opening toward the columned courtyard.  An atmosphere of peace and calm pervades the space.
    Mamluk architecture interior
  • Mosque, tomb, and madrasa of Qala'un, Cairo, built 1283-85. Mashrabeyya details focus on the carved wooden screen with its spindles and incised patterns.  Beyond, a blur.  What life must have looked like for Muslim women long ago.
    Detail of a carved wooden mashrabiyya
  • The mosque caretaker opens the interior shutters to the morning.  His gowned figure is silhouetted against the iron grillwork of the window.  A folded newspaper is in his left hand.
    Opening to the morning
  • Niche in the Hall of the Ambassadors, Alhambra.  Tiled floor and wainscot, marble wall, decorated arches, grilled windows.  Sunlight streaming through the windows sheds a magical glow into the space.  Unusually, it is empty of tourists.
    Alhambra_niche_ESP201210--0253.jpg
  • Pierced stone window grille in the mosque of Ahmad Shah 1, Ahmedabad.
    Geometric-window-grille-IND201301--2...jpg
  • Pierced stone window grille in the mosque of Ahmad Shah 1, Ahmedabad, seen from the interior, with sunlight projected onto the sill and embrasure.
    pierced_stone_window_IND201301--2586.jpg
  • View from the interior of the window of pierced stone in squares, each square filled with a geometric or curvelinear motif.
    Geometric-window-grille-IND201301--0...jpg
  • Taj Mahal seen from the prison room in the Agra Fort, where Shah Jehan was incarcerated by his son.
    Agra_Fort_prison_IND200111-3-30m.jpg
  • Oman, Nakhl fortress.  Built by Al Arabiyah dynasty imam who threw the Portuguese out of Oman in the 1640s.  Used until the 1950s as the residence of the local wali (governor). Restored in the 1990s.
    OMN200801--3598.jpg
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  • Friday mosque, Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park.
    IND201301--0565 - Copy.jpg
  • Friday mosque, Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park.  Mughal ornament in a provincial style locally known as Indo-Saracenic.  Tomb in the center of the precinct, arcaded enclosure wall beyond.
    Champaner_Friday_Mosque_IND201301--0...jpg
  • Fes: el Attarine Medersa: looking upward to the students' rooms, cornices and railings of carved wood thickly ornamenting every surface.  Three open windows.  Laundry hanging over a  window grille dries in the sun.
    Fes_Attarine-medersa_MOR200411_0506.jpg
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