The Remaining Minarets of the Remains in the City of Cairo | ||||
| Journal of Association of Arab Universities for Tourism and Hospitality | ||||
| Article 10, Volume 21, Issue 4, December 2021, Page 194-211 PDF (1.41 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jaauth.2021.97904.1244 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
Heba Abo-Egila 
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| Lecture at the Department of Tourist Guidance, Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Suez Canal University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The minaret has an architectural importance through its main function as a place for announcing the call to prayer or raising the call to prayer by the muezzins, and the extent to which the call to prayer is linked to the obligation of prayer is one of the most important pillars of religious obligations for Muslims in the Islamic world from East Asia in the east to North Africa in the west. The minaret gained its architectural importance through its main function as a place for announcing the call to prayer, or raising the call to prayer by muezzins, and the extent to which the call to prayer is linked to the obligation of prayer, which is one of the most important pillars of religious obligations for Muslims, which made the minaret, with its height and height, represent the emblem of Islam as a religion in any city or village. In terms of general form. This research deals with the remaining independent minarets in Islamic architecture in Cairo of all kinds, and they are seven minarets remaining without religious installations attached to them: (1) Conditions for naming independent minaretm, (2) The extent of functional compatibility between independent minarets, and (3)Technical and architectural features of independent minarets. The research will be provided with a number of horizontal projections and photographic plates to enrich the scientific material. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Minaret; architecture; muqarnas; architectural style; plant decorations; geometric decorations | ||||
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