This complex was established in 1235 AD (633 AH) by order of Dhayfa Khatun, daughter of King Al-Adil Sayf al-Din Abu Bakr and wife of King Al-Zahir Ghazi ibn Salah al-din al-Ayyubi. Dhayfa Khatun was one of the most prominent women in Islamic history, serving as the regent of Aleppo between 1236 and 1242 AD, playing a significant role in supporting education and religion. She founded this complex as a religious, educational and social center, incorporating a mosque, a madrasa, a tomb and a ribat for sufis. To ensure its sustainability, she endowed it with generous Waqf properties, including the village of Kafr Zita and a third of a water -powered mill. The architectural design was remarkable, with a wooden ceiling crafted from red pine planks, harmonizing beautifully with a marble mihrab inlaid with mother-of-pearl and alabaster. The attached madrasa accommodated twenty-five children and focused on teaching the foundational Arabic grammar text, Al-Ajrumiyyah. During the restoration efforts in 2006, the ceiling was reinforced with hidden steel clamps to preserve its structural integrity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This complex was established in 1235 AD (633 AH) by order of Dhayfa Khatun, daughter of King Al-Adil Sayf al-Din Abu Bakr and wife of King Al-Zahir Ghazi ibn Salah al-din al-Ayyubi. Dhayfa Khatun was one of the most prominent women in Islamic history, serving as the regent of Aleppo between 1236 and 1242 AD, playing a significant role in supporting education and religion. She founded this complex as a religious, educational and social center, incorporating a mosque, a madrasa, a tomb and a ribat for sufis. To ensure its sustainability, she endowed it with generous Waqf properties, including the village of Kafr Zita and a third of a water -powered mill. The architectural design was remarkable, with a wooden ceiling crafted from red pine planks, harmonizing beautifully with a marble mihrab inlaid with mother-of-pearl and alabaster. The attached madrasa accommodated twenty-five children and focused on teaching the foundational Arabic grammar text, Al-Ajrumiyyah. During the restoration efforts in 2006, the ceiling was reinforced with hidden steel clamps to preserve its structural integrity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,326],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-5995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aleppo","category-religious-monuments-aleppo","tag-preserved-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5995","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=5995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}