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Shamma'iya Madrasa

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probably classrooms. A second floor exists, with a gallery around the courtyard leading to 19 small bedrooms for students. A second, larger prayer hall is also found on the upper floor, directly above the ground floor prayer hall. The layout, in which the entrance and major rooms of the ground floor are aligned symmetrically with the two central axes of the building, may have been inspired by the layout of madrasas in Egypt or further east. It also resembles the layout of traditional houses in the medina of Tunis, and the building may have been a former house that was remodeled and repurposed into a madrasa. Due to its later renovations, none of the madrasa's original decoration, if it had any, has survived.
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From the street, a staircase climbs to the entrance where a bent passage leads to a central square courtyard. Across the courtyard, opposite the entrance, is a small vaulted prayer hall. In the middle of the other two sides of the courtyard are vaulted rooms, entered through large arches, which were
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The madrasa was renovated in later periods. It was restored by Shaykh Abu al-Rayth al-Kashash in the 17th century, and its current form is the result of a restoration ordered by Ahmed Khuja, who was
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M. Bloom, Jonathan; S. Blair, Sheila, eds. (2009). "Architecture; VI. c. 1250–c. 1500; D. Western Islamic lands.".
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It is located in Al Madrasa Ech Chamaiya alley near souk Echammaine, which later became Souk El Blaghgia.
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The madrasa was restored in the nineties and became a training center for leather and shoe artisans.
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The madrasa had a very important role in the society. Most of its students later became
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Architecture of the Islamic West: North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, 700–1800
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region. It was constructed between 1236 and 1249 on the orders of the first
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Mohamed Béji Ben Mami, Monuments de la médina de Tunis à travers les âges
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The Shamma'iya Madrasa was the first madrasa to be built in the whole
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in the 13th century, it was the first madrasa to be built in the
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The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
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Madrasa Ech Chamaiya

Arabic
romanized
madrasa
Medina of Tunis
Hafsids
Maghreb
Maghreb
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Abu Zakariya Yahya
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Al-Zaytuna Mosque
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"Shamma'iya Madrasa"




Architecture of the Islamic West: North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, 700–1800
ISBN
9780300218701
"Madrasa Chammaiya - Discover Islamic Art - Virtual Museum"
ISBN
9780195309911

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