Zellij
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Zellij, also spelled zillij or zellige, is a style of mosaic tilework made from individually hand-chiseled tile pieces. The pieces were typically of different colours and fitted together to form vario
A wall covered in zellīj at the Ben Youssef Madrasa in Marrakesh
Mosaic tiling from the Qal'at Bani Hammad (present-day Algeria), 11th century
Tile decoration on the upper part of the minaret of the Kasbah Mosque in Marrakesh (modern restoration of original 12th-century tiles)
Zellij panel with complex geometry and mosaic-formed Arabic letters in the Mirador de Lindaraja in the Alhambra (14th century)
Moorish architecture
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Moorish architecture is a style within Islamic architecture that developed in the western Islamic world, including al-Andalus and what is now Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. Scholarly references on Isl
Mezquita catedral de Córdoba interior 4
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Pavillon Cour des Lions Alhambra Granada Spain
Columns and two-tiered arches in the original section of the Great Mosque of Cordoba in Spain, founded in 785 by the Umayyad ruler Abd ar-Rahman I