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Bab al-Maqam ( ar, بَاب الْمَقَام, Bāb al-Maqām), meaning the ''Gate of Maqam'' is one of the Gates of Aleppo.
The 13th century structure was built by 
Deviations in its design from the majority of medieval Syrian gates suggest that its function was ceremonial rather than military.
In ''Constructions of Power and Piety in Medieval Aleppo'' (1997), Yasser Tabbaa details some of these differences, noting that they reinforce the possibility that the gate had primarily a religious and political function, serving as homage to
al-Aziz Muhammad
Al-Aziz Muhammad ibn Ghazi ( – 26 November 1236) was the Ayyubid Emir of Aleppo and the son of az-Zahir Ghazi and grandson of Saladin. His mother was Dayfa Khatun, the daughter of Saladin's brother al-Adil.
Al-Aziz was aged just three when ...
on the road that connected the Maqamat with the Citadel
A citadel is the core fortified area of a town or city. It may be a castle, fortress, or fortified center. The term is a diminutive of "city", meaning "little city", because it is a smaller part of the city of which it is the defensive core.
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Deviations in its design from the majority of medieval Syrian gates suggest that its function was ceremonial rather than military.
In ''Constructions of Power and Piety in Medieval Aleppo'' (1997), Yasser Tabbaa details some of these differences, noting that they reinforce the possibility that the gate had primarily a religious and political function, serving as homage to Abraham
Abraham, ; ar, , , name=, group= (originally Abram) is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Judaism, he is the founding father of the special relationship between the Je ...
and contrasting with the eastern shrines of Mashhad al-Dikka and Mashhad al-Husayn.Tabbaa, Yasser, 1997, ''Constructions of Power and Piety in Medieval Aleppo'', The Pennsylvania State University Press, pp. 21.
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