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| Location | Cairo, Egypt map | ||||
| Date | 1504 timeline | ||||
| Building Type | mixed use commercial, caravanserai | ||||
| Construction System | stone masonry | ||||
| Climate | desert | ||||
| Context | urban | ||||
| Style | Mamluk | ||||
| Notes | Caravanserai courtyard has two story arcade of pointed arches, timber screens. | ||||
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| Discussion | Qansuh al-Ghuri Commentary
"At a principal junction in the centre of the mediaeval city stands the Mosque and Tomb of Sultan Qansuh al-Ghouri, the last of the Mamluk sultans to enjoy a substantial reign. The waqla or khan is one of the most important and unusual of this series of buildings. It rises through six storeys and is built around a courtyard. The lower two floors are incorporated into an arcade and the upper levels have handsome oriel windows with intricate mushrabiye, the brise-soleil screens common throughout the Muslim world. The adjacent madrassa, on a four-iwan plan, demonstrates the final evolution of the prayer-chamber into a congregational mosque. Here it has been widened until its total width is nearly three times that of the courtyard." — Sir Banister Fletcher. A History of Architecture. p570, 573. | ||||
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Sources on Qansuh al-Ghuri
Howard Davis. Slide from photographer's collection. PCD.2260.1012.1537.082. PCD.2260.1012.1537.084. PCD.2260.1012.1537.083. Sir Banister Fletcher. A History of Architecture. Boston: Butterworths, 1987. ISBN 0-408-01587-X. NA200.F63 1987. discussion p570, 573. — The classic text of architectural history. Expanded 1996 edition available at Amazon.com Ernst J. Grube and George Michell. Architecture of the Islamic World. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1984. LC 84-50341. NA380.A78 1984. plan drawing, p229. Dennis Sharp, ed. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Architects and Architecture. New York: Whitney Library of Design, an imprint of Watson-Guptil Publications, 1991. ISBN 0-8230-2539-X. photo, p207. Dennis Sharp, ed. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Architects and Architecture. New York: Watson-Guptil Publications, 1991. exterior photo of courtyard. p207. Kevin Matthews. The Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM. Artifice, 2001. ISBN 0-9667098-4-5.— Available at Amazon.com
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