Author
The names of those who designed or implemented the building are not known specifically, but they most likely included local architects and others from the city of Aleppo in Syria.
Author Original
لا يُعرف بالتحديد أسماء من قام بتصميم أو تنفيذ المبنى، ولكنهم على الأغلب تضمنوا معمارين محليين وآخرين من مدينة حلب في سورية
Publication Date
964 / 1557
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Museum With No Frontiers
Record ID
monument;ISL;pa;Mon01;9;ar
Library Location
Al-Amarah Al-Amira is located in the middle of the Aqabat Al-Takiya road, which connects the Khan Al-Zeit market and the Bab Al-Nazir road leading to the western side of the Haram, Jerusalem.
Date
964 / 1557
Notes
The architecture contained four architectural units: a large kitchen with its accessories, which included two ovens, storerooms, and a fountain; And a great khan; And a mosque; A ribat for Sufis and the poor, consisting of fifty-five rooms. This large building has two entrances: a northern entrance located on the road to Aqabat al-Takiya; The southern entrance is located on Aqabat Al-Saraya Road. The northern entrance leads to a dargah (distributed corridor) that leads to an open courtyard. In the northern part of the complex, there are remains of a suspended entrance, the kitchen of the crowded building, storerooms and a way, in addition to a two-story building. The southern entrance to the complex leads to a courtyard with rich walls decorated with circular stone decorations, and the courtyard leads to an open courtyard surrounded by colonnades that constitute a crowded architecture. To the east of the Khan and its open courtyard is a building built in the 13th / 19th century known as the Adliya Building. It may have been built on the site of Rabat, which disappeared over time. Facing the Adliya building is a hall with four naves, which may be related to the Amara Al-Amira Mosque, most of whose features have disappeared. To the east of this hall there is a shrine covered by a dome, in which it is believed that Saad al-Din al-Rusafi, the author of the book “The Pure Manhole and the Sufficient Drinking Water,” was buried. The various units that the complex included indicate that it performed more than one function, some of which were devotional and religious, some of which were charitable, as in the kitchen in which he used to prepare food for the poor and needy, and some of which were commercial and economic, as in the caravanserai in which merchants were received and commercial transactions were concluded.
Sample Text
Yusuf al-Natsheh “The Great Architecture” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=monument;ISL;pa;Mon01;9;ar
