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The Mosque of Muhammad Bey Abu al-Zahab.

Photograph of all that remains of a great complex built next to al-Azhar Mosque. This central-domed structure is a copy of Sinan Pasha mosque with a major omission: the minaret. This mosque's minaret seems to be consciously shaped after the late Mamluk minaret of al-Ghuri in the al-Azhar Mosque.

 

Format

Photograph

 

Credit

Image courtesy of Nasser Rabbat of the Aga Khan Program at MIT.

 

MIT OpenCourseWare Course of Origin

4.615 The Architecture of Cairo, Spring 2002

 

MIT Course Instructor

Rabbat, Nasser O.

 

MIT Department

Architecture

 

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http://ocw.mit.edu/terms

 

Publisher

MIT OpenCourseWare

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