Copyright

Imane Fayyad;

Published On

2025-06-03

Page Range

pp. 11–28

Language

  • English

Print Length

18 pages

1. Endangered Residential Vestiges of the Mamluk Period in the Old City of Damascus

The Case of the al-Aglani and al-Tawil Houses

Chapter of: Housing, Heritage and Urbanisation in the Middle East and North Africa (pp. 11–28)

Chapter One examines the endangered vestiges of the Mamluk period in the old city of Damascus, focusing on the case of the al-Aglani and al-Tawil houses. Imane Fayyad richly illustrates and analyses this domestic architecture, including its building materials, spatial organisation and associated lifestyles. These Mamluk mansions represent a valuable yet little-known heritage of Damascus that should be preserved for present and future generations due to their historic, architectural and ornamental significance.

Contributors

Imane Fayyad

(author)
Associate Researcher at TrAme
https://orcid.org/0009-0002-2050-687X

Imane Fayyad has been an assistant at the University of Damascus since

  1. He pursued his master’s degree in France in 2008, and in 2016,

he defended his doctoral dissertation entitled ‘The Domestic Habitat

in Damascus, Homs and Hama of the Mamluk and Ottoman Periods

(13th–18th Centuries)’ at the University of Picardy in Amiens and at

Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE) in Paris. Several of his studies

on these houses have since been published in peer-reviewed journals.

Currently, he is an associate researcher at the TrAme laboratory (UR

  1. and the PROCLAC laboratory (UMR 7191) in France.