Mamluk Architecture

Mamluk architecture was the building style that developed in Egypt, the Levant and the Hijaz under the Mamluk Sultanate, which ruled from Cairo between 1250 and 1517. The Mamluk sultans were prolific patrons of construction and contributed heavily to the historic fabric of Cairo, while also leaving major monuments in Damascus, Jerusalem, Aleppo, Tripoli and Medina. Its principal building type was the multi-functional religious and charitable complex, combining a patron's mausoleum with a madrasa, a Sufi lodge, a mosque or a public fountain in a single structure. A later revival of the style in Egypt during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is known separately as Neo-Mamluk architecture.