Lane-Poole, Stanley, 1854-1931 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 153
rred, the Muslim artist would sometimesemploy his skill in carving the wooden casing of the tomb withelaborate arabesques, arranged in intricate panels. The form of a Cairo pulpit, termed in Arabic j+^o minbar(pronounced mimbar), is seen in fig. 34. It represents a pulpit,now in the South… … FIG. 33.—CARVED PANEL OF PULPIT (Jth). (Sjuth Kensington Museum.) sometimes place a pulpit in the mosque of another, and KaitBey was especially generous in this kind of restoration, it ispossible that the pulpit did not come from any of his ownmosques ; and the tradition is that it belonged to that…
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