The minbar of the Ibrahimi Mosque is an 11th-century minbar in the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, West Bank. The minbar was commissioned by the Fatimid vizier Badr al-Jamali in 1091 for the Shrine of Husa
The minbar in the mosque
The Kufic Arabic inscription above the doorway of the minbar
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In the history of art and design, strapwork is the use of stylised representations in ornament of ribbon-like forms. These may loosely imitate leather straps, parchment or metal cut into elaborate sha
Typical early English strapwork of 1589, detail from the monument to Sir Gawen Carew in Exeter Cathedral
French stucco, scrollwork and strapwork by Rosso Fiorentino in the Palace of Fontainebleau, 1530s
Ornament print, 1550s, Hans Vredeman de Vries
Sophisticated three-dimensional strapwork in stucco at the Palace of Fontainebleau