King al-Zahir Ghazi founded the Sultanate School to commemorate his sons. Its design features an open courtyard centered by a marble pool and surrounded by an arcade of arches resting on harmoniously proportioned marble columns. The school also boasts a muqarnas dome over the mausoleum chamber, showcasing the remarkable craftsmanship of Ayyubid muqarnas sculptors, and is adorned with a foundation tablet inscribed in elegant Thuluth script.<\/p>\n
In the 16th century AD, the building was transformed into the lodge of the Naqshbandi Sufis. As a result, lectures continued to be held at Friday dawn and at sunset, and one of the rooms was converted into a manuscript repository that houses rare copies of Ihya\u2019 and Ash-Shatibiyya.<\/p>\n
The Syrian\u2013Italian project of 2007 restored the dome using a blend of plaster, lime, and a glass fiber mesh. Furthermore, the school was reactivated in 2019 to serve as a tourist guidance center offering live Sufi music presentations during cultural festivals\u2014thereby linking the living heritage with the historic structure.<\/p>\n
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King al-Zahir Ghazi founded the Sultanate School to commemorate his sons. Its design features an open courtyard centered by a marble pool and surrounded by an arcade of arches resting on harmoniously proportioned marble columns. The school also boasts a muqarnas dome over the mausoleum chamber, showcasing the remarkable craftsmanship of Ayyubid muqarnas sculptors, and is adorned with a foundation tablet inscribed in elegant Thuluth script. In the 16th century AD, the building was transformed into the lodge of the Naqshbandi Sufis. As a result, lectures continued to be held at Friday dawn and at sunset, and one of the rooms was converted into a manuscript repository that houses rare copies of Ihya\u2019 and Ash-Shatibiyya. The Syrian\u2013Italian project of 2007 restored the dome using a blend of plaster, lime, and a glass fiber mesh. Furthermore, the school was reactivated in 2019 to serve as a tourist guidance center offering live Sufi music presentations during cultural festivals\u2014thereby linking the living heritage with the historic structure. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,329],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-5926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aleppo","category-historical-schools-aleppo","tag-preserved-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}