Al-Attarin School in the Historical Fez… A Picture of an Ancient Civilization That Combines Science and Beauty
The city of Fez is one of the most famous and most important Arab and Islamic cities historically, as it was a cultural and civilization center during the tenth century AD and reached the peak of its glory during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, during the reign of the Marinid sultans. It is a city of mosques and schools, like Al-Attarin School, which we will explore with Luxury Fes Tours.
Al-Attarin School bore the name of the market that opens its door to, namely Al-Attarin market. The school rises near the Al-Qarawiyyin Mosque, which is only separated by a narrow alley, and it was built in the city center where most of the economic activities are concentrated, and public and private buildings abound, which prompted its designer to arrange its components over a narrow area at three levels, adding it to the ground level.
Al-Attarin School was established by the Sultan Al-Marini, Abu Saeed Othman, in Fez, in the year 723 AH / 1323 AD, and he was entrusted with the task of observing its work to Sheikh Abi Ahmed Abdullah Ibn Al-Qasim Al-Mizwar. The building consists of an entrance leading to an open courtyard, the façade of which is decorated with ceramics and carved wood, and a rectangular prayer hall with three levels, all of which are designated for student residence. In the northwestern corner, an ablution house was built similar to that of the Al-Sahrij School in Andalusia.
Al-Attarin school's architect Abdullah bin Qasem organized an opening connected to the courtyard within an architectural and decorative division consisting of three vertical sections, the middle of which is more spacious and high, which includes the entry door, and is crowned from the top with an arch of wood.
The architectural ablution room takes the form of a rectangle, and it is surrounded by a small basin surrounded by of small rooms on three sides, and this lighting has been completely renewed in the early years of the twentieth century, and despite its small size, the school of El Attarin remains one of the most prominent landmarks in Morocco as it embodies the new orientations of the Marinid decorative aesthetic during the beginning of the eighth / 14th century AD. On the other hand, this school maintains among its walls on distinct capitals columns bearing many poetic, historical and Quranic inscriptions, and a bronze chandelier still hanging in the middle of its mosque.
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