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Sidi Moussa Tannery
The Sidi Moussa Tannery or Guerniz Tannery is a historic tanning facility located in the heart of Fes el-Bali, the historic ''medina'' of Fez, Morocco. The tannery is located in the Guerniz neighbourhood, near the Zawiya of Moulay Idris II and the Nejjarine Museum. History Local tradition holds that the Sidi Moussa Tannery is the oldest in the city and that, along with the Chouara Tannery further east, it dates from the city's foundation by Idris II (beginning of the 9th century). The ''Rawd al-Qirtas'', a historical chronicle, makes more definitive reference to the Sidi Moussa Tannery's existence in the early 12th century. The tanneries are built on the site of water source (called '''Ayn ad-Debbaghin'') that emerges at this location. Historical sources show that tanneries were a major industry even in the city's early history and were tied to a large part of its economy. The products of the city's tanneries were valued enough that they were exported all the way to Baghdad. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fez (50565990206)
Fez most often refers to: * Fez (hat), a type of felt hat commonly worn in the Ottoman Empire * Fez, Morocco (or Fes), the second largest city of Morocco Fez or FEZ may also refer to: Arts and media * ''Fez'' (Frank Stella), a 1964 painting by the modern artist Frank Stella * Fez (''That '70s Show''), a fictional character from the TV series ''That '70s Show'' * ''Fez'' (video game), a 2012 puzzle-platform game Music * "The Fez", a song from Steely Dan's 1976 album ''The Royal Scam'' * "Fez – Being Born", a song from U2's 2009 album ''No Line on the Horizon'' * ''Live at Fez'', a 2004 album by Bree Sharp * ''Live from Fez'', a 2005 album by David Berkeley Other * Fès–Saïs Airport (IATA code: FEZ), an airport serving Fès in Morocco * Fez (nightclub), a nightclub and restaurant in New York City's NoHo District * Fez Whatley (born 1964), American talk radio host and comedian * FEZ-like protein, a family of eukaryotic proteins * Free economic zone Free economic zones ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chouara Tannery
Chouara Tannery (sometimes spelled Chouwara) is one of the three tanneries in the city of Fez, Morocco. It is the largest tannery in the city and one of the oldest. It is located in Fes el Bali, the oldest medina quarter of the city, near the Saffarin Madrasa along the Oued Fes (also known as the Oued Bou Khrareb). Since the inception of the city, the tanning industry has been continually operating in the same fashion as it did in the early centuries. Today, the tanning industry in the city is considered one of the main tourist attractions. The tanneries are packed with round stone vessels filled with dye or white liquids for softening the hides. The leather goods produced in the tanneries are exported around the world.Chouara Tannery ''Archnet''. Retrieved January 22, 2018. History Local tradition generally holds that the Chouar ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marinid Sultanate
The Marinid Sultanate was a Berber Muslim empire from the mid-13th to the 15th century which controlled present-day Morocco and, intermittently, other parts of North Africa (Algeria and Tunisia) and of the southern Iberian Peninsula (Spain) around Gibraltar. It was named after the Banu Marin (, Berber: ''Ayt Mrin''), a Zenata Berber tribe. The sultanate was ruled by the Marinid dynasty ( ar, المرينيون ), founded by Abd al-Haqq I.C.E. Bosworth, ''The New Islamic Dynasties'', (Columbia University Press, 1996), 41-42. In 1244, after being at their service for several years, the Marinids overthrew the Almohads which had controlled Morocco. At the height of their power in the mid-14th century, during the reigns of Abu al-Hasan and his son Abu Inan, the Marinid dynasty briefly held sway over most of the Maghreb including large parts of modern-day Algeria and Tunisia. The Marinids supported the Emirate of Granada in al-Andalus in the 13th and 14th centuries and made an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Almohad Caliphate
The Almohad Caliphate (; ar, خِلَافَةُ ٱلْمُوَحِّدِينَ or or from ar, ٱلْمُوَحِّدُونَ, translit=al-Muwaḥḥidūn, lit=those who profess the Tawhid, unity of God) was a North African Berbers, Berber Muslim empire founded in the 12th century. At its height, it controlled much of the Iberian Peninsula (Al Andalus) and North Africa (the Maghreb). The Almohad movement was founded by Ibn Tumart among the Berber Masmuda tribes, but the Almohad caliphate and its ruling dynasty were founded after his death by Abd al-Mu'min, Abd al-Mu'min al-Gumi. Around 1120, Ibn Tumart first established a Berber state in Tinmel in the Atlas Mountains. Under Abd al-Mu'min (r. 1130–1163) they succeeded in overthrowing the ruling Almoravid dynasty governing Morocco in 1147, when he conquered Marrakesh and declared himself caliph. They then extended their power over all of the Maghreb by 1159. Al-Andalus soon followed, and all of Muslim Iberia was under Almohad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abu Al-Hasan Ali Al-Jaznai
Abu al-Hassan Ali al-Jaznai () (who lived in the 14th century) was a Morocco, Moroccan historian and author of ''Kitab Tarikh madinat Fas, al-maruf bi-Zahrat al-as fi bina madinat Fas'' or simply ''Zahrat al-As'' (''The Myrtle Flower''), an important source on the history of Fes in Morocco and its inhabitants. Biography Ali al-Jaznai was born into the al-Jaznai family, a well known medieval Berbers, Berber family, belonging to the zenata jaznaya tribe. References External links * E. Levi-Provençal, Fondation de Fès, Fès-Alger, mars 193Wikimazigh - Fondation de Fès (retrieved 30 December 2013) * ''Zahrat al-As'', Abd al-Wahhab b. Mansur (ed.) 2nd edn. Rabat: Al-Matba'a al-Malikiyya, 1991 14th-century births 14th-century Berber people 14th-century Moroccan historians Berber historians Berber writers People from Fez, Morocco Year of death missing Zenata {{Morocco-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon. In 762 CE, Baghdad was chosen as the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate, and became its most notable major development project. Within a short time, the city evolved into a significant cultural, commercial, and intellectual center of the Muslim world. This, in addition to housing several key academic institutions, including the House of Wisdom, as well as a multiethnic and multi-religious environment, garnered it a worldwide reputation as the "Center of Learning". Baghdad was the largest city in the world for much of the Abbasid era during the Islamic Golden Age, peaking at a population of more than a million. The city was largely destroyed at the hands of the Mongol Empire in 1258, resulting in a decline that would linger through many c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rawd Al-Qirtas
''Rawḍ al-Qirṭās'' ( ar, روض القرطاس) short for ''Kitāb al-ānīs al-muṭrib bi-rawḍ al-qirṭās fī ākhbār mulūk al-maghrab wa tārīkh madīnah Fās'' ('', The Entertaining Companion Book in the Gardens of Pages from the Chronicle of the Kings of the Maghreb and the History of the City of Fes'') is a book that describes he rulers of the Maghreb, and a local history of the city of Fez. The work is usually known by its short title ''Rawd al-Qirtas'' meaning ''The Gardens of Pages''. It is said that this has a double meaning in that there was a public garden in Fes called The Garden of al-Qirtas, the latter name being a nickname of Ziri ibn Atiyya.See introduction by Huici Miranda to the Spanish translation In the days before printing, this popularity led to a large number of variant manuscripts. A consequence of this is some uncertainty about the author, who is given in some versions as Ibn Abi Zar of Fes, and by some as Salih ibn Abd al-Halim of Granada. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Idris II Of Morocco
Idris bin Idris ( ar, إدريس بن إدريس) known as Idris II ( ar, إدريس الثاني) (August 791 – August 828), was the son of Idris I, the founder of the Idrisid dynasty in Morocco. He was born in Walīlī two months after the death of his father. He succeeded his father Idris I in 803. Biography Idris II was born on August 791, two months after the death—June 791—of Idris I. His mother was Kenza, his father's wife and the daughter of the Awraba tribe chieftain, Ishaq ibn Mohammed al-Awarbi. He was raised among the Berber Awraba tribe of Volubilis. In 803, he was proclaimed ''Imam'' in the mosque of Walila succeeding his father. Of the Idrisid sultans Idris II was one of the best educated. In the work of Ibn al-Abbar, correspondence between Idris II and his contemporary Ibrahim I ibn al-Aghlab is quoted in which he invites him to renounce his claims to his territories. By the end of Idris II's reign, the Idrisid kingdom included the area between the Shalif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tannery At Fez 2
Tanning may refer to: *Tanning (leather), treating animal skins to produce leather *Sun tanning, using the sun to darken pale skin **Indoor tanning, the use of artificial light in place of the sun **Sunless tanning, application of a stain or dye to the skin (active ingredient in tanning lotion products is dihydroxyacetone (DHA)). *Physical punishment, metaphorically, such as a severe spanking which leaves clear marks See also *Skin whitening *Tan (color) *Tan (other) *Tannin (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanning (leather)
Tanning is the process of treating Skinning, skins and Hide (skin), hides of animals to produce leather. A tannery is the place where the skins are processed. Tanning hide into leather involves a process which permanently alters the protein structure of skin, making it more durable and less susceptible to decomposition and coloring. Before tanning, the skins are dehaired, degreased, desalted and soaked in water over a period of six hours to two days. Historically this process was considered a noxious or "odoriferous trade" and relegated to the outskirts of town. Historically, tanning used tannin, an acidic chemical compound from which the tanning process draws its name, derived from the bark of certain trees. An alternative method, developed in the 1800s, is chrome tanning, where chromium salts are used instead of natural tannins. History The English word for tanning is from medieval Latin , derivative of (oak bark), from French (tanbark), from old-Cornish (red oak). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Funduq Al-Najjarin
Funduq al-Najjarin ( ar, فندق النجارين, lit=Inn of the carpenters) (also spelled ''Fondouk (el-)Nejjarine'') is a historic ''funduq'' (a caravanserai or traditional inn) in Fes el Bali, the old medina quarter in the city of Fez, Morocco. The funduq is situated in the heart of the medina, at Al-Najjarin Square (also: Nejjarine Square or Place Nejjarine), which is also notable for the Nejjarine Fountain, an attached '' saqayya'' or traditional public fountain. The building was designed for use by the merchants, traders, and visitors to the city of Fez and provided a storage place. It is a prominent example of Moroccan riad architecture. Today it houses a private museum, ''Le Musée Nejjarine des Arts et Métiers du Bois'' (Nejjarine Museum of Wooden Arts & Crafts). History The name ''al-Najjarin'' (or the French transliteration ''Nejjarine''; ) means "carpenters", a reference to the historic presence of a carpenters' '' souq'' (market) around the square in front of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zawiya Of Moulay Idris II
The Zawiya of Moulay Idris II is a '' zawiya'' (an Islamic shrine and religious complex, also spelled ''zaouia'') in Fez, Morocco. It contains the tomb of Idris II (or Moulay Idris II when including his sharifian title), who ruled Morocco from 807 to 828 and is considered the main founder of the city of Fez."Fes".'' Encyclopædia Britannica''. 2007. Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. 3 Mar. 2007 It is located in the heart of Fes el-Bali, the UNESCO-listed old medina of Fez, and is considered one of the holiest shrines in Morocco. The current building experienced a major reconstruction under Moulay Ismail in the early 18th century which gave the sanctuary its overall current form, including the minaret and the mausoleum chamber with its large pyramidal roof. Background: Moulay Idris II Idris II, born in 791, was the son and successor of Idris I. Idris I was a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad who fled from Abbasid-controlled territory after the Battle of Fakh because he had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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