Dar al-Anmat

دار الأنماط

Al-Fustat

A Fustat emporium where women's fabrics and luxury dress were sold, drawn from every land, its benches sat by the leisured and the pleasure-seekers — counted by al-Umari among the marvels of building 1.

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Egypt & Nile
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Overview

Dar al-Anmat was a house in Fustat in Egypt. Women's cloth, fine clothing and goods were sold there, brought from every land. 1

Al-Umari's description

Ibn Fadl Allah al-Umari says that idle and leisure-seeking people would sit at its shops. He counted it among the wonders of buildings and the marvels of monuments. 1

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the Mosque of Amr ibn al-As· قطع الخطبة العبيدية وإقامة الخطبة العباسية بمصر· Amr's Dismissal and Ibn Abi Sarh's Sole Charge of Egypt· فتح مصر والإسكندرية· Fall of the Tulunid state and burning of al-Qata'i' (292 AH)· حريق الفسطاط ووزارة شيركوه ثم صلاح الدين· The Milch-Camel Exchange: Amr's and Ibn Abi Sarh's Kharaj· The Killing of Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr in Egypt

Sources

  1. Masalik al-absar fi mamalik al-amsar — al-Umari (1924 printing), p. 234
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islam.museum contributors. “Dar al-Anmat”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/building/dar-al-anmat/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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