عمارة الزوايا الدينية بمدينة طرابلس القديمة (النشأة – الأدوار – التكوين المعماري)

Abstract

This study describes and analyzes one of the Islamic architectural structures that are characterized by multiple functional roles, which are the Zawaya, by tracing the circumstances of their emergence and their partial and gradual spatial separation from the architecture of the mosque after the Islamic Arbetah were the central link in this architectural independence of the Zawaya.  The study also addressed the types of  Zawaya  according to function and architectural composition, as well as their transfer from the Islamic East to the West and some of the changes that occurred as a result of this transfer, and the circumstances that contributed to that, in addition to addressing the roles of the social Zawaya in the Islamic city and access from it to the old city of Tripoli and the most important models of the existing Zawaya  to date, which date back in their entirety to the Ottoman era, and studying these models through description and archaeological analysis.