North Africa And Alandalus 13-15th C

Question 1

What is it
What empire?
Who built it?
When?
Where?

Answer 1

Mihrab Dome (Great mosque of Tlemcen)
Almoravid
Sultan Yusuf Ibn Tashfin
11th c
Tlemcen, Algeria

Question 2

What is it
What empire?
Who Built it?
When?
Where?

Answer 2

Mihrab Niche (Great Mosque of Tlemcen)
Almoravid
Sultan Yusuf Ibn Tashfin
11th century
Tlemcen, Algeria

Question 3

What is it
What empire?
Who Built it?
When?
Where?

Answer 3

Minaret (great mosque of Tlemcen)
Almoravid
Sultan Yusuf Ibn Tashfin
11th century
Tlemcen, Algeria

Question 4

What is it?
When?
Where?

Answer 4

Folio of a Quran manuscript (maghrabi script, ink colours and gold on vellum)
13th century
Spain

Question 5

What is it
What empire?
When?

Answer 5

Folio of Quran Manuscript (1090, earliest dated illuminated manuscript from the western Islamic world, maghrabi script)
Taifa or Almoravid
1090 AD

Question 6

What is it
What empire?
When?
Where?

Answer 6

Minaret (Kutubiyya mosque, marrakesh)
Almohad
12th c
Marrakesh, Morocco

Question 7

What is it
What empire?
When?
Where?

Answer 7

Minaret ( Giralda Mosque)
Almohad
12th c
Seville Spain (al andalus)