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About
The Collection
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Ayyubid
Style hall4B
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Ayyubids ruled egypt after the
fall of the Fatimid dynasty in 1171 A.D.
When
Salah
al-Din Ayyuyb (Saladin) the great minister of the last Fatimid
Caliph seized power 1171 - 1193,he
was involved in constant
battles. The Ayyubid style
is transitional between the Fatimid and the Mamluk
styles.
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A
wood cenotaph of Indian teak attributed to the early Ayyubid period
was originally in the Mausoleum of al-Husein the grandson of the
Prophet Mohamed in Cairo. It is richly covered with geometric
decorations and bands of highly developed foliated Arabic kufic
and
naskh
inscriptions style
spread
at that time.
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Polished
basalt tombstone from the cemetery of the city of Qus upper Egypt
of
a deceased lady whose titles and her date of death 1193 A.D
are mentioned.
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A
unique fragmentary stucco decorative panel from the walls of the
college
built in Cairo by the Ayyubid Sultan al-Kamel in
1225 A.D. Quranic naskh inscriptions are delicately
ingraved
into the Stucco. The Ayyubid style followed the
same line as the Fatimid style with more details and perfections.
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