A brief note on the Yemenite chahār ṭāq mausoleums.  The case of Barāqish

Maria Vittoria Fontana

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Barāqish
Yemen
chahār ṭāq
Islamic
architecture

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Fontana, M. V. (2023). A brief note on the Yemenite chahār ṭāq mausoleums. The case of Barāqish. VICINO ORIENTE, (XX). Retrieved from https://www.vicino-oriente-journal.it/index.php/vicino-oriente/article/view/212

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The chahār ṭāq, a type of building frequently used as a mausoleum in Iran during the Islamic era,
has an undeniable Iranian pre-Islamic origin, but its architectural form, together with its function as
a mausoleum, crossed the Iranian border and was attested in Yemen too. The 17th-century chahār ṭāq
mausoleum at Barāqish seem to be a specific choice, probably of a Shīʿī matrix

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