Traditional steam baths in the old city of Sana'a: a descriptive architectural and historical study

Name: Traditional steam baths in the old city of Sana'a: a descriptive architectural and historical study
Author: Al-Asbahi, Alaa Ahmed Muhammad

Title	Traditional steam baths in the old city of Sana'a: a descriptive architectural and historical study
Author	Al-Asbahi, Alaa Ahmed Muhammad
Type	Book
Language	Arabic
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Library:	Royal Danish Library
Library Asset ID	ISSN: 2356-9654
Record ID	cdi_almandumah_primary_923556
Library Location	DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
Notes	Public steam baths were known in the old city of Sana'a, and the height of their spread was in the Islamic era. The baths had a distinctive and prominent role in activating social, economic, and even political life. Most of them operated around the mosques as endowments, the number of which was linked to the number of neighborhoods they served in the old city, or they operated individually and spread in the suburbs and outskirts of the city. The steam baths were of different types; Some of them are public, some are private, and their greatest spread was in particular in the Ottoman period, when some of these baths were named after the names of those who built them, or after the names of the neighborhoods in which they were built. Tourist investment in these archaeological monuments, which present an image of an identity threatened with withdrawal at any moment, is an important aspect of saving these monuments that exercised a social, economic, and even political identity in previous historical periods, and are still exercising these roles today. Therefore, it is worth paying attention to restoring those social rituals that express the history of a nation that had its historical and social contribution to the giving of civilizations, and cooperating to restore the revival of those practices again, as a method of preservation that is not merely architectural, devoid of human practice. The benefit of this research seeks to record the history and culture of baths in the old city of Sana'a, and to determine the features of its cultural, social and architectural identity. The reflection of this study aims to continue the activation of steam bath facilities, and to revive the heritage spirit of those practices, which will return meaningful tourism investments if they are activated within stimulating systematic plans that show them, and constitute the provision of their services in a heritage appearance that carries all possible health and recreational conditions.
Görüntüle	Majallat al-ʻimārah wa-al-funūn wa-al-ʻulūm al-insānīyah, 2017 (8), p.1-26

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Traditional steam baths in the old city of Sana'a: a descriptive architectural and historical study

Author Al-Asbahi, Alaa Ahmed Muhammad

Type Book

Language Arabic

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Library Royal Danish Library

Library Asset ID ISSN: 2356-9654

Record ID cdi_almandumah_primary_923556

Library Location DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals

Notes Public steam baths were known in the old city of Sana'a, and the height of their spread was in the Islamic era. The baths had a distinctive and prominent role in activating social, economic, and even political life. Most of them operated around the mosques as endowments, the number of which was linked to the number of neighborhoods they served in the old city, or they operated individually and spread in the suburbs and outskirts of the city. The steam baths were of different types; Some of them are public, some are private, and their greatest spread was in particular in the Ottoman period, when some of these baths were named after the names of those who built them, or after the names of the neighborhoods in which they were built. Tourist investment in these archaeological monuments, which present an image of an identity threatened with withdrawal at any moment, is an important aspect of saving these monuments that exercised a social, economic, and even political identity in previous historical periods, and are still exercising these roles today. Therefore, it is worth paying attention to restoring those social rituals that express the history of a nation that had its historical and social contribution to the giving of civilizations, and cooperating to restore the revival of those practices again, as a method of preservation that is not merely architectural, devoid of human practice. The benefit of this research seeks to record the history and culture of baths in the old city of Sana'a, and to determine the features of its cultural, social and architectural identity. The reflection of this study aims to continue the activation of steam bath facilities, and to revive the heritage spirit of those practices, which will return meaningful tourism investments if they are activated within stimulating systematic plans that show them, and constitute the provision of their services in a heritage appearance that carries all possible health and recreational conditions.

Görüntüle Majallat al-ʻimārah wa-al-funūn wa-al-ʻulūm al-insānīyah, 2017 (8), p.1-26