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Ali Ben Youssef Medersa at Fodors
Article in Fodors.com about Madrasa Ben Youssef from Mar 2007Overall rating:
100 out of 100
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Fodors describe the Medersa as being "an extraordinarily well preserved 16th-century Koranic school" and also the "largest such institution" in North Africa. Originally built in the 14th century, it has "tiny, upper-level rooms that look like monks' cells, arranged around inner courtyards" which housed many of the approximately "900 students from many Muslim countries" who studied there. When it was "almost completely" rebuilt in the 16th century, "Sultan Abdullah el Ghallib, of the famously refined Saadians" added the "incredibly refined Andalusian details". These carvings, especially in the "small mosque" are said to remain "in good condition". There is also a "large main courtyard" which "opens into an elaborately decorated prayer hall" where there are "rare palm motifs as well as the more customary calligraphy of Koranic texts".
This review is an interpretation of the above mentioned author
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