Madrasa al-Nāṣiriyya (Tripoli)

Located in front of the main gate of the Great Mosque.

Photographs taken by Simon Rousselot on February 2019

One epigraphic emblem above the entrance. The reading is difficult.

Glory to our Lord, the sultan al-Malik al-Nāṣir Ḥasan b. Muḥammad

(According to Nina Jidejian in Tripoli through the ages, 1980, p. 80)

Possible dating: between 755/1354 and 762/1361

Close-up of the emblem:

To sultan Ḥasan’s page


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