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  • 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
  • Door jamb of Qala i Kuhna Mascid, Purana Qila, Delhi.
    Delhi_Qala_i_Kuhna__IND200111-01-30.jpg
  • Qala i Kuhna Mascid in the Purana Qila ("Old Fort") area, Delhi.  This mosque was built by the Afghan chieftain Sher Shah Sur 1541 who had dispossessed the second Mughal emperor, Humayun (who eventually defeated Sher Shah's successors in 1555..
    Qala i Kuhna Mascid IND200111-01-13.jpg
  • Fes: el Attarine Medersa; tile and carved wood decoration on interior walls, in geometric panels each filled with a different group of motifs.
    Fes_Attarine-architectural-ornament-...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
  • Fes: el Attarine Medersa: reflecting pool in the inner courtyard, looking toward closed carved wooden doors into the lecture hall.
    Fes_Attarine-courtyard-_MOR200411_05...jpg
  • Fes: el Attarine Medersa: looking upward to the students' rooms, cornices and railings of carved wood.  The school was built in 1325; Construction was initiated by Sultan Yaqub Abu Said Uthman II.  Current students still live in the building.
    Fes_Attarine-medersa_MOR200411_0514.jpg
  • Fes: el Attarine Medersa: reflecting pool in the inner courtyard; Moroccan man in white jellaba, arms folded..
    Fes_Attarine-medersa_MOR200411_0512.jpg
  • Fes: el Attarine Medersa: reflecting pool in the inner courtyard, looking toward one corner highighted by a sharp noonday sun.
    Fes_Medina_Morocco_MOR200411_0510.jpg
  • Mosque, tomb, and madrasa of Qala'un, Cairo, built 1283-85.   Symmetrical detail of pendentive and balcony embrasures in this medieval mausoleum.  It has been replaced and repaired but still shows the delicate tracery typical of Islamic architectural ornament.
    Ceiling detail in the Qala'un mausol..airo
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