Citations:ablaq

English citations of ablaq

alternating stripes of piebald (especially white and black) stone

• 2002 March 11, Andrew Petersen, Dictionary of Islamic Architecture, Routledge, →ISBN, page 2:

  [...] Qasr Ablaq which was built out of bands of light and dark masonry. Although the building has not survived, it demonstrates that the term ablaq was used to describe masonry of this type.  […] Ablaq continued to be used in the Ottoman period [...]

• 2004 September 1, Heghnar Watenpaugh, The Image of an Ottoman City: Imperial Architecture and Urban Experience in Aleppo in the 16th and 17th Centuries, BRILL, →ISBN, page 179:

  Ablaq bands surmount the windows and bichrome masonry appears on either side of the grilled openings. […] The entrance bay on the façade which juts out from the wall and the roofline and features the tallest arch, elaborately decorated with an ablaq design reminiscent of Mamlūk prototypes.

• 2009 October 19, Daniel Jacobs, The Rough Guide to Jerusalem, Penguin, →ISBN:

  Uphill slightly, the middle doorway, which leads to a carpentry workshop, is less lofty than the other two, topped by an ablaq in red, white and black stone, with jigsawlike ablaq work in black and white above the lintel and around the […]

• 2009, Ellen V. Kenney, Power and Patronage in Medieval Syria: The Architecture and Urban Works of Tankiz Al-Nāṣirī, page 37:

  […] At the street level, the expanse of the mosque building would have been further exaggerated optically by the bold, horizontal stripes of its yellow and black ablaq masonry receding into the distance. Employing an elongated ablaq façade, […]

• 2021 November 15, Nasser O. Rabbat, The Citadel of Cairo: A New Interpretation of Royal Mamluk Architecture, BRILL, →ISBN, page 200:

  They were probably responsible for laying down the courses of ablaq, which suggests that this method of articulating walls, so ubiquitous in later Mamluk and Ottoman monuments in Cairo, was introduced into Cairo from Damascus by al-Nāșir Muhammad. […]