Hafsid architecture developed under the patronage of the Hafsid dynasty in Ifriqiya (roughly present-day Tunisia) during the 13th to 16th centuries. Evolving...
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The Hafsid dynasty (Arabic: الحفصيون al-Ḥafṣiyūn) was a Sunni Muslim dynasty of Berber descent that ruled Ifriqiya (modern day Tunisia, western Libya,...
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the region and the main center of architectural patronage. Unlike the architecture further west, Hafsid architecture was built primarily in stone (rather...
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the region and the main center of architectural patronage. Unlike the architecture further west, Hafsid architecture was built primarily in stone (rather...
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Ribera Alta (12th-13th century) Kasbah Mosque in Tunis (13th century, Hafsid period) Bou Inania Madrasa in Fes (14th century, Marinid period) The Court...
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Hafsids 1229–1574 (Near and Middle Maghreb) Marinids (1244–1465, Middle and Far Maghreb) Zayyanids (1235–1550, Middle Maghreb) Ottoman architecture (1550–1830...
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Abdellia Palace (category Hafsid architecture)
Abdellia Palace (Arabic: قصر العبدلية) is a palace located in La Marsa, a town in the northern suburbs of the capital of Tunisia, Tunis. It is built in...
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Sidi Kacem El Jellizi Mausoleum (category Hafsid architecture)
into a family of Andalusi migrants who stayed in Fez before settling in Hafsid Ifriqiya. Nicknamed jellizi in reference to the craft of zellij manufacturing...
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Kasbah Mosque, Tunis (category Hafsid architecture)
and was unparalleled in other Hafsid architecture. The design of the minaret is directly inherited from Almohad architecture further west. In particular...
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Al Haliq Mosque (category Hafsid architecture)
Tunisia Geographic coordinates 36°47′31″N 10°10′14″E / 36.791953888889°N 10.170541111111°E / 36.791953888889; 10.170541111111 Architecture Type Mosque...
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well-suited to the architecture of the bourgeois mansions and royal palaces built in the city.: 72–73 Although little remains of the Hafsid-era palaces in...
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decorated with geometric patterns and inlay. Residential architecture in Historic Cairo Hafsid architecture Williams 2018. Raymond 1993. Blair & Bloom 1995, pp...
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the Hafsid period and quickly proliferated. After the advent of Ottoman rule in the 16th century some elements and traditions of Ottoman architecture, such...
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Al-Hawa Mosque (category Hafsid architecture)
mosque in Tunis, Tunisia. It was first built in the 13th century under the Hafsids and later renovated in the 18th century under the Husainids. It is an official...
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Bab Jedid (Tunis) (category Hafsid architecture)
in English, as it was one of the first gates built under the rule of the Hafsid dynasty. It is also called the "Gate of the Blacksmiths", due to the nearby...
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Tunis (redirect from Architecture of Tunis)
later, took the title of Emir and founded the Hafsid dynasty. The city became the capital of a Hafsid kingdom stretching towards Tripoli and Fez. Walls...
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Kingdom of Tlemcen (section Architecture)
between the realm of the Marinids to the west, centred on Fez, and the Hafsids to the east, centred on Tunis. Tlemcen was a hub for the north–south trade...
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Mosque of the Three Doors (category Aghlabid architecture)
façade in Islamic architecture. The mosque was modified in later periods, notably with the addition of a minaret in 1440, during the Hafsid period. The mosque's...
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returning from Mecca.: 33–34 Both mosques were given minarets during the Hafsid period.: 33 Little remains or is known about the Aghlabid royal residence...
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Medina of Tunis (section Architecture)
mosques, mausoleums, madrasas and fountains dating from the Almohad and the Hafsid periods. Founded in 698 around the original core of the Zitouna Mosque,...
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emergence of three major dynasties starting from the 13th century: the Hafsid dynasty in Ifriqiya, the Zayyanid dynasty in central Maghreb, and the Marinid...
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Abu Zakariya Yahya (category 13th-century Hafsid caliphs)
ben Abd al-Wahid (1203 – 1249) was the founder and first sultan of the Hafsid dynasty in Ifriqiya. He was the grandson of Abu Hafs Umar ibn Yahya al-Hintati...
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Berbers (redirect from Berber architecture)
Almohads. Their Berber successors – the Marinids, the Zayyanids, and the Hafsids – continued to rule until the 16th century. From the 16th century onward...
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Marinid dynasty (redirect from Marinid architecture)
their territories in Al-Andalus to Christian kingdoms like Castile, the Hafsids of Ifriqiya broke away in 1229, followed by the independence of the Zayyanid...
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Ottoman Tunisia (section Architecture)
attacked and successfully captured Tunis, which was then a territory of the Hafsids. However, less than a year later, Emperor Charles V sent a large, multinational...
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Madrasa (category Arabic architecture)
Jonathan; S. Blair, Sheila, eds. (2009). "Hafsid". The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195309911...
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Al-Zaytuna Mosque (category Aghlabid architecture)
of Uqba in Kairouan. Significant restoration work was carried out by the Hafsid rulers, under al-Mustansir in 1250 and under Abu Yahya Zakariya in the early...
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Sfax (section Hafsid era)
not as prosperous in architecture, markets, and trade as it was in ancient times. Abou Yahya Abou Bekr finally re-established Hafsid unity and recaptured...
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Campaigns of Abu Zakariya Yahya (category Hafsid dynasty)
throughout the reign of the first Hafsid emir, Abu Zakariya Yahya, mainly taking place in the Maghreb region. Even before the Hafsids declared independence, Abu...
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History of North Africa (section Hafsids)
ruling dynasty. Hafsids were Ifriqiya governors of Almohads until 1229, when they declared independence. After the split of the Hafsids from the Almohads...
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