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Marinid madrasa architecture
Marinid madrasa architecture is the 13th–15th-century Moroccan building type of Islamic religious schools in Fez, Salé, and Meknes, uniting worship, …
Timeline
- 1321–1323Fez · MoroccoSultans Abu Sa'id Uthman II built the Sahrij Madrasa (1321) and the Attarin Madrasa (1323), establishing the basic Marinid madrasa form: courtyard, prayer hall, student dormitories, and refined geometric decoration.
- 1336Fez · MoroccoSultan Abu al-Hasan ordered construction of the madrasa bearing his name, a grand structure with a fountain courtyard and two-story student dormitories, a representative work of the Marinid architectural heyday that falls directly within this batch's time range.
- 1350–1465Fez and Fes el-Jdid · MoroccoThe Bou Inania Madrasa (1350) pushed madrasa decoration to its zenith; thereafter Marinid sultans continued building in Salé, Meknes, and elsewhere, establishing the classic Maghreb madrasa paradigm of North Africa.
Sources
- The Marinid Madrasas of Fez — Jonathan M. Bloom (1985)
- Historical Dictionary of Morocco — Thomas K. Park and Aomar Boum (2006)