Aesthetic values of the shrines during the Mamluk period in Cairo (648-932 Ah/1250-1517 AD)

Document Type : Brief summaries of Dissertations.

Author

Faculty of Arts of Qana

Abstract

The Mamluk buildings in Cairo represent a wonderful museum of models of shrines of various kinds, which the Mamluk architecture excelled in inventing everything that is wonderful of them, whether of stone, or the other clothed with marble and in alternating colors, or the third of the rotation of stone and marble together, and the Mamluk era is considered the golden age in the history of Islamic architecture, where the demand for the construction of mosques, schools, shrines, etc., and the diversity and perfection in various architectural elements such as beacons, domes and decorations. The construction of mosques also took into account the construction of schools and shrines, as well as mosques with shrines and interlocking cymbals.
The research aims to address the buttons in the different buildings of the city of Cairo during the Mamluk era, and to highlight their functional and decorative role as an architectural and aesthetic element that adorned the buildings of Mamluk Cairo.
The research axes are summarized in an introduction and a preface, along with two sections. The first topic dealt with the method of making buttons in the Mamluk era, and the second topic dealing with the decoration method for buttons in the Mamluk era, highlighting the findings, and documenting the research with a list of sources and references, in addition to the appendices represented in shapes and images.

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