Gaza, art and architecture - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Sadeq, Moain
Leiden
Brill
(2,641 words)
Gaza 's location on the land route "al-darb al-sulṭāni" ("the sultan's way") between Egypt and al-Shām (Greater Syria) made its architecture and art a melting pot of various architectural and decorative elements, adapted to the city's particular spatial, environmental, and geographic settings. Almost all the historic buildings are located within the former city walls above the dwellings of Roman-Byzantine Gaza (Sadeq, The city of Gaza; Glucker) and in the adjacent al-Shujāʿiyya neighbourhood, on the eastern foot of the old city mound. We know