It is reported that one day he passed through the suq of Madinah and naturally saw people engrossed in the business of buying and selling. |
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In the evening the great wooden doors close and the shops and stalls of the suq are protected from thieves. |
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The suq is characterised by a rectangular market hall approximately 95 m long. |
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The Bardo was a fortified Beylical city consisting of a palace, barracks, a mosque, a hammam and a suq. |
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The suq was built of white dressed stone that has turned ashen grey over time. |
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The west entrance to the suq is simpler in both design and architectural composition and consists of a rectangular portal, above which is a large lintel. |
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Income from the suq was allocated to the Haram al-Sharif, and towards projects in Jerusalem undertaken by Amir Tankaz al-Nasiri, such as the Madrasa Tankaziyya. |
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At the center of the medina, it is bounded by the suq neighborhood to the north, the Kasbah to the east and the Kutubiyya mosque to the southwest. |
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The suq is designed on a rectangular plan, and has a ceiling that is arched with a barrel-shaped vault divided into a series of arches totalling 30 sections. |
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Carved on a muqarnas façade on the opening of a skylight in the middle of the suq there is a signature of one of the craftsmen who worked on the construction of the suq. |
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The entrance of the suq is the place for beggers to ask for money. |
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Each suq is made up of a wide central alley off which narrow lateral alleys contain workshops and stalls, with each of the myriad geometric spaces being covered by a brick-built vault. |
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On the east side of the suq an imposing portal, considered to be one of the most beautiful Mamluk monuments in the city, opens onto the west side of al-Haram al-Sharif. |
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Its vastness is indiscernible from the outside due to its location amidst Suq al-Hamidiyya. |
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Located in a side road off the Suq al-Hamidiyyeh, it is easily discernable by its Mesopotamian-style red brick muqarnas dome rhythmically dotted with bulbs of dark glass. |
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A TOTAL of 75 people went head-to-head yesterday on the first day of a scavenger hunt in Manama Suq. |
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Bursa Suq Al-Sila', the world's first end-to-end Shari'ah-compliant commodity trading platform, has added RBD Palm Olein as a new commodity offering. |
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