Tag Archives: Arab culture

Qa’a room

The Qa’a is a roofed reception room found in the domestic architecture of affluent residences of the Islamic world. It is the most common hall type in the medieval Islamic domestic architecture. The plan of a qa’a may be inspired by the four-iwan, cruciform-shaped plan of religious buildings. They were…

Qa’a room

Harem

Harem (Arabic: حريم‎ ḥarīm, “a sacred inviolable place; harem; female members of the family”), also known as zenana in South Asia, properly refers to domestic spaces that are reserved for the women of the house in a Muslim family and are inaccessible to adult males except for close relations. Similar…

Harem

Mashrabiya

A mashrabiya (Arabic: مشربية‎), also either shanshūl (شنشول) or rūshān (روشان), is a type of projecting oriel window enclosed with carved wood latticework located on the second story of a building or higher, often lined with stained glass. The mashrabiya is an element of traditional Arabic architecture used since the…

Mashrabiya

Influences of Islamic architecture

Islamic architecture encompasses a wide range of both secular and religious styles from the early history of Islam to the present day. What today is known as Islamic architecture was influenced by Roman, Byzantine, Persian and all other lands which the Muslims conquered in the 7th and 8th centuries. Further…

Influences of Islamic architecture

Islamic architecture

Islamic architecture

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