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Door to the waiting room in the maqsara of the Great Mosque of Kairouan
(باب غرفة الانتظار بمقصورة جامع القيروان الكبير)

Title	Door to the waiting room in the maqsara of the Great Mosque of Kairouan
Title Original	باب غرفة الانتظار بمقصورة جامع القيروان الكبير
Publication Date:	Second quarter of the 5th century AH / second quarter of the 11th century AD
Publication Place	- Museum of Islamic Arts; sluggishness Kairouan
Subject	Carved cedar wood.
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Physical Dimensions	الارتفاع: 284 سم؛ العرض: 221 سم
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID	B 101
Record ID	object;ISL;tn;Mus01;13;ar
Library Location	Museum of Islamic Arts; sluggishness Kairouan
Date	Second quarter of the 5th century AH / second quarter of the 11th century AD
Notes	This large rectangular door consists of frames and two wooden doors. The door consists of several framed panels connected to prominent supports of carved wood and adorned with floral decoration. They are also extended on a larger scale in the large framing bands, as they are composed of decorative scrolls branching out from corners in the form of flowers consisting of three lobes. The spiral windings of the bent leg are subject to the necessities of faithfully woven symmetry, intertwining so that they appear completely to disappear, and then expanding to amaze the viewer with the most artistic innovations. Strange. These same large strips of frames form a base above which extends a frieze containing framed relief ornaments in which alternating hexagons (rectangular shapes ending with triangles) and squares are placed on their vertices. The façade was decorated in the middle with a polygon consisting of sixteen sides in the shape of a star, which made the decoration appear more dense, diverse and lively, as elements in the shape of pine nuts and flower calyxes were mixed with stems and palm fronds and spirally wound, some of which did not lack symmetry. One feels that this decorative register begins to break its connection with the decorative register of the pulpit of the Great Mosque of Kairouan (built in 248 AH/866 AD) in order to resemble Fatimid art in Egypt, which is itself the inheritor of some Abbasid decorative themes. The decoration of the panels lining the door panels and their adjacent frames is simpler, as it is limited to some geometric decorative elements, some of which were restored during the Hafsid era.
Sample Text	Mourad Rammah “The door of the antechamber of the maqsa of the Great Mosque of Kairouan” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;tn;Mus01;13;ar

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Door to the waiting room in the maqsara of the Great Mosque of Kairouan

(باب غرفة الانتظار بمقصورة جامع القيروان الكبير)

Publication Date Second quarter of the 5th century AH / second quarter of the 11th century AD

Publication Place - Museum of Islamic Arts; sluggishness Kairouan

Subject Carved cedar wood.

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Physical Dimensions الارتفاع: 284 سم؛ العرض: 221 سم

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Library Asset ID B 101

Record ID object;ISL;tn;Mus01;13;ar

Library Location Museum of Islamic Arts; sluggishness Kairouan

Date Second quarter of the 5th century AH / second quarter of the 11th century AD

Notes This large rectangular door consists of frames and two wooden doors. The door consists of several framed panels connected to prominent supports of carved wood and adorned with floral decoration. They are also extended on a larger scale in the large framing bands, as they are composed of decorative scrolls branching out from corners in the form of flowers consisting of three lobes. The spiral windings of the bent leg are subject to the necessities of faithfully woven symmetry, intertwining so that they appear completely to disappear, and then expanding to amaze the viewer with the most artistic innovations. Strange. These same large strips of frames form a base above which extends a frieze containing framed relief ornaments in which alternating hexagons (rectangular shapes ending with triangles) and squares are placed on their vertices. The façade was decorated in the middle with a polygon consisting of sixteen sides in the shape of a star, which made the decoration appear more dense, diverse and lively, as elements in the shape of pine nuts and flower calyxes were mixed with stems and palm fronds and spirally wound, some of which did not lack symmetry. One feels that this decorative register begins to break its connection with the decorative register of the pulpit of the Great Mosque of Kairouan (built in 248 AH/866 AD) in order to resemble Fatimid art in Egypt, which is itself the inheritor of some Abbasid decorative themes. The decoration of the panels lining the door panels and their adjacent frames is simpler, as it is limited to some geometric decorative elements, some of which were restored during the Hafsid era.

Sample Text Mourad Rammah “The door of the antechamber of the maqsa of the Great Mosque of Kairouan” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;tn;Mus01;13;ar