The Travels of Ibn Jubayr
| Name of text: | The Travels of Ibn Jubayr |
| Author of text: | Ibn Jubayr |
| Date of text: | March-April, 1183 |
| Date of person in text: | 1145-1217 |
| Name of structure in text: | Mausoleum with the head of Husayn |
| Type of structure in text: | Mausoleum |
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| Country in text: | Egypt |
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| City in text: | Cairo |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | walls |
| Description of mosaic in text: | There too are various kinds of marbles tessellated with coloured mosaics of rare and exquisite workmanship such as one cannot imagine nor come near to describing. The entrance to this garden [mausoleum] is by a mosque like to it in grace and elegance, with walls that are all marble in the style we have just described. To the right and left of the mausoleum are two chambers of exactly the same style and both leading into it. |
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| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | No |
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| Bibliography: | The Travels of Ibn Jubayr, ed. and trans. by Roland Broadhurst (London: Goodword Books, 1952, repr. 2011), p. 37 |
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| Comments: | Husayn (626-680) was the son of Ali Ibn Abi Talib, and therefore grandson of Mohammed. Footnote 17 suggests it might have been the head of Zayd ibn Ali 'l-Husayn. |