Madrasa El Unqiya ( ar, المدرسة العنقية) is one of the
madrasa
Madrasa (, also , ; Arabic: مدرسة , pl. , ) is the Arabic word for any type of educational institution, secular or religious (of any religion), whether for elementary instruction or higher learning. The word is variously transliterated '' ...
hs of the
medina of Tunis
The Medina of Tunis is the medina quarter of Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. It has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979.
The Medina contains some 700 monuments, including palaces, mosques, mausoleums, madrasas and fountains dating from ...
.
Localization
It is located in Onk El Jamal Street in the
Medina of Tunis
The Medina of Tunis is the medina quarter of Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. It has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979.
The Medina contains some 700 monuments, including palaces, mosques, mausoleums, madrasas and fountains dating from ...
.
History
It was built in 1333 era under the orders of the sister of the
Hafsid
The Hafsids ( ar, الحفصيون ) were a Sunni Muslim dynasty of Berber descentC. Magbaily Fyle, ''Introduction to the History of African Civilization: Precolonial Africa'', (University Press of America, 1999), 84. who ruled Ifriqiya (western ...
sultan Abu Yahya Abu Bakr al-Mutawakkil.
Muhammad Ibn Abdel-Salam al-Hawari, the professor of
Ibn Khaldoun
Ibn Khaldun (; ar, أبو زيد عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن خلدون الحضرمي, ; 27 May 1332 – 17 March 1406, 732-808 AH) was an Arab
The Historical Muhammad', Irving M. Zeitlin, (Polity Press, 2007), p. 21; "It is, of ...
was the first director of this madrasah in 1341.
[Abdelaziz Daoulatli, Tunis sous les Hafsides, Tunis, Institut national d'art et d'archéologie, 1976, p. 165]
In the 16th century and during the
Ottoman era, Ahmed Khodja
Dey
Dey (Arabic: داي), from the Turkish honorific title ''dayı'', literally meaning uncle, was the title given to the rulers of the Regency of Algiers (Algeria), Tripoli,Bertarelli (1929), p. 203. and Tunis under the Ottoman Empire from 1671 o ...
restored the madrasa and ordered to teach the
Hanafite
The Hanafi school ( ar, حَنَفِية, translit=Ḥanafiyah; also called Hanafite in English), Hanafism, or the Hanafi fiqh, is the oldest and one of the four traditional major Sunni schools ( maddhab) of Islamic Law (Fiqh). It is named a ...
doctrine.
It became a classified monument in 19 October 1992.
Evolution
Nowadays, the madrasa is not used and in danger.
Architecture
It has the
hafsid
The Hafsids ( ar, الحفصيون ) were a Sunni Muslim dynasty of Berber descentC. Magbaily Fyle, ''Introduction to the History of African Civilization: Precolonial Africa'', (University Press of America, 1999), 84. who ruled Ifriqiya (western ...
style of the 14th century and a typical architecture of the madrasa: a hall surrounded with four halls and 14 rooms.
It has also an oratory that was used as a teaching and a prayer room in the same time.
The facade of the madrasa has a simple decoration.
References
{{Portal, Africa
El Unqiya