Salimiyya Takiyya

Ibn Arabi Mosque, also known as the Salimiyya Takiyya Mosque[a]
Exterior view of the imaret of Sultan Salim at Salihiyya[1][b]

The Salimiyya Takiyya (Arabic: التكية السليمية, romanizedat-Takiyya as-Salīmiyya) is a takiyya (Ottoman-era Arabic name for a mosque complex which served as a Sufi convent) in as-Salihiyya, Damascus.

The complex was built over and in the surroundings of Ibn Arabi's tomb in 924/1518 by the Ottoman sultan Selim I upon his return from the conquest of Egypt.[2] The Salimiyya Takiyya is considered to have been "the first Ottoman building in Syria".[3] However, its construction is considered to have followed "a local architectural idiom",[4] which was "neither Mamluk, nor Ottoman"[5] (unlike the later Sulaymaniyya Takiyya, which marked the introduction of the Ottoman architectural style to Damascus[6]).[c]

The Salimiyya Takiyya consists of a mosque (Ibn Arabi Mosque) and an imaret facing it.


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  1. ^ Al-Rihawi, Abd al-Qadir; Ouéchek, Émilie E. (1975). "Les deux takiyya de Damas". Bulletin d'études orientales. 28. pl. IV (page 12 of file).
  2. ^ Al-Rihawi, Abd al-Qadir; Ouéchek, Émilie E. (1975). "Les deux takiyya de Damas". Bulletin d'études orientales. 28: 224 [8].
  3. ^ Tamari, Steve (2009). "Between the "golden age" and the Renaissance". Trajectories of Education in the Arab World. p. 41.
  4. ^ Helen Pfeifer (2022). Empire of Salons.
  5. ^ Bulletin signalétique. 1978. p. 23. ni mamelouk, ni ottoman
  6. ^ Gérard Degeorge (1994). Damas. p. 46.
  7. ^ Helen Pfeifer (2022). Empire of Salons.