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Mosque in Tinmel,Morocco, 1153-1154 Abandoned after the fall of the Almohads, Tinmal is now being restored.
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Mosque in Tinmel,Morocco, 1153-1154 Abandoned after the fall...

Mosque al-Ahzar,foremost center of theology in Islam and, with Moroccan Fes, the world's oldest university, begun 970 CE. The central court of the Fatimid period (969-1171).
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Mosque al-Ahzar,foremost center of theology in Islam and, with Moroccan Fes,...

Mosque al-Ahzar,foremost center of theology in Islam and, with Moroccan Fes, the world's oldest university, begun 970 CE. The aisles of the sanctuary hall.
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Mosque al-Ahzar,foremost center of theology in Islam and, with Moroccan Fes,...

Madrasa of Sultan Hasan al-Nasir,Mamluk-style. 1356-1363. Sultan Hasan was assassinated in 1361; when one of the two minarets toppled in 1360 and killed 300 people, the minaret was left unfinished and is now shorter.
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Madrasa of Sultan Hasan al-Nasir,Mamluk-style. 1356-1363. Sultan Hasan...

Complex of Sultan al-Ashraf Qaytbay,1474-1475. Late Mamluk architecture, a madrasa, the Sultan's tomb and a mosque.
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Complex of Sultan al-Ashraf Qaytbay,1474-1475. Late Mamluk architecture...

Complex of Sultan al-Ashraf Qaytbay,1474-1475. Late Mamluk architecture, a madrasa, the Sultan's tomb and a mosque. The dome of Sultan Qaytbay's tomb-mosque.
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Complex of Sultan al-Ashraf Qaytbay,1474-1475. Late Mamluk architecture...

Complex of Sultan al-Ashraf Qaytbay,1474-1475. Late Mamluk architecture, a madrasa, the Sultan's tomb and a mosque. Interior of the dome of Sultan Qaytbay's tomb-mosque.
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Complex of Sultan al-Ashraf Qaytbay,1474-1475. Late Mamluk architecture...

Bronze doors in the mosque-mausoleum of Sultan al-Muayyad (reigned 1412-1421). The doors belonged originally to the madrasa of Sultan Hasan (02-01-01/32) but were removed to the al-Muayyad-mosque in the 15th century.
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Bronze doors in the mosque-mausoleum of Sultan al-Muayyad (reigned 1412...

Bronze doors in the mosque-mausoleum of Sultan al-Muayyad (reigned 1412-1421). The doors belonged originally to the madrasa of Sultan Hasan (02-01-01/32) but were removed to the al-Muayyad-mosque in the 15th century.
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Bronze doors in the mosque-mausoleum of Sultan al-Muayyad (reigned 1412...

Mosque in Tinmel,Morocco, 1153-1154 Abandoned after the fall of the Almohads, Tinmal is now being restored.
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Mosque in Tinmel,Morocco, 1153-1154 Abandoned after the fall...

Minaret of Shellah, the cemetery of the Merinid sultans in Rabat. The minaret was built under sultan Abu Hassan, the last Merinid ruler to be buried in Shellah in 1351.
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Minaret of Shellah, the cemetery of the Merinid sultans in Rabat. The mi...

Gur-e Amir mausoleum,the tomb of Timur,1405
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Gur-e Amir mausoleum,the tomb of Timur,1405