Qansuh al-Ghuri
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 | Qansuh al-Ghuri |
| Designer | unknown |
| Location | Cairo, Egypt |
| Date | 1504 |
| Building Type | mixed use commercial, caravanserai |
| Climate | desert |
| Context | urban |
| Architectural Style | Mamluk |
| Street Address | |
| Notes | Caravanserai courtyard has two story arcade of pointed arches, timber screens. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Qansuh_al-Ghuri.html |
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"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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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.
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