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ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE - Pharos University in Alexandria

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Architecture of the Mamluks<br />

View of the<br />

Madrasa of<br />

Amir<br />

Khayerbak<br />

from the<br />

South on al-<br />

Darb al-<br />

Ahmar Street.<br />

The Mosque of Sultan al-Nasir<br />

Muhammad <strong>in</strong> Cairo (1318 & 1335).<br />

This hypostyle structure is<br />

dist<strong>in</strong>guished by the arrangement<br />

of alternate courses of red and<br />

black stone <strong>in</strong> its arches and<br />

niches, and by its two unusual<br />

m<strong>in</strong>arets.<br />

Ma<strong>in</strong> facade of the Wikala of<br />

Sultan Qaytbay.

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