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Aleppo Amir arabesque Arabic Arabic inscription arches architecture arranged artists Ayyub Baghdad band Barkūk beasts beautiful Beybars Beysary birds blue border bowls bronze Cairene CARVED PANELS character chased chief Citadel cloth colours Coptic churches Copts court Damascus decoration Demy 8vo designs dome doors Egypt Egyptian El-Ashraf El-Makrizy El-Mu'izz enamel enclosed Es-Salih examples Fatimy Khalifs fess figures floral fourteenth century Fustat glass lamps gold houses Ibn-Tūlūn inlaid with silver ivory Kaït KAIT BEY Kalaun key-pattern Khalifs Koran Korāns lattice LATTICE-WORK lord Mamluk Mamluk Sultan marble medallions meshrebiya metal-work minaret Mohammadan mosaic Mōsil mosque Muslim Naskhy niche ornament P. G. TAIT palace pattern Persian plaster plates princes pulpit reign rosettes round royal Saladin Saracenic art seen side silk South Kensington Museum spandrils stalactites stone style Sultan Hasan Syria thirteenth century throne tiles tomb two-headed eagle wall WEKALA OF KAIT wood Zenky عز لمولانا
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| Title | The Art of the Saracens in Egypt South Kensington Museum art handbooks South Kensington Museum |
| Author | Stanley Lane-Poole |
| Publisher | Chapman and Hall, 1888 |
| Length | 312 pages |
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