Barakat Images

Masna’t Daw’an, Yemen - Dr. Salma Samar Damluji received multiple Barakat grants from 1988-2000 thereby fueling the research for her books “Valley of Mud-Brick Architecture (Ancient to Contemporary Design)” and “The Architecture of Yemen: Yafi to Al Mahrah” including Shabwah, Hadhramaut”

Design by student Hana Hijazi 2007/2008 – Barakat has given an annual prize to The Prince’s School of Traditional Arts, London, since 2000.

Entrance to Al-Imam Al-Shafi’i mosque, Cairo, Egypt, prior to conservation

Hadhramaut, Yemen - Dr. Salma Samar Damluji received multiple Barakat grants from 1988-2000 thereby fueling the research for her books “Valley of Mud-Brick Architecture (Ancient to Contemporary Design)” and “The Architecture of Yemen: Yafi to Al Mahrah” including Shabwah, Hadhramaut”

Mausoleum of Zubaida (dome interior), Baghdad, Iraq (Creswell Photographic Archive, Ashomlean Museum, Oxford). This image is from the Creswell archive, which was catalogued and digitized along with another 6000 images thanks to Barakat’s support over nine years.

Inauguration event following conservation of Al-Imam Al-Shafi’i mosque and mausoleum, Cairo, Egypt, 2009

Design by student Rosalind Whitman 2007/2008 – Barakat has given an annual prize to The Prince’s School of Traditional Arts, London, since 2000.

Before conservation thought to be an Ottoman Koran, found to be a 16th century Safavid Koran, Konya Mevlana Museum, Turkey – study and conservation by Grantees Aysin Yoltar-Yildirim and Paul Hepworth 2005/2006

Annual Barakat grant since 2005 to support the librarian’s salary at The Kenyon Institute in Jerusalem, to prevent the library from closing down

Handanija Mosque, Bosnia Herzegovina, before restoration - the oldest mosque still standing in the region where approximately 1700 mosques and monuments were destroyed during the 1992–95 war

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The Sabil, Bayt Al-Kritliyya, Cairo, Egypt – Restoration by Nicholas Warner in 2001

Madrasa and Mausoleum of Amir Sunqur Sa’id, Cairo, Egypt (Creswell Photographic Archive, Ashomlean Museum, Oxford). This image is from the Creswell archive, which was catalogued and digitized along with another 6000 images thanks to Barakat’s support over nine years.

Edinburgh Central Mosque, England - travel grant to Mamdouh Sakr, of American University Cairo, to travel from Cairo to the UK to visit the mosque in 2005

Design by student Yasmin Kathrada 2007/2008 – Barakat has given an annual prize to The Prince’s School of Traditional Arts, London, since 2000.

Entrance to Al-Imam Al-Shafi’i mosque and mausoleum, Cairo, Egypt, after conservation thanks to donation by His Excellency Easa Al-Gurg in 2009

A resist dyed cotton fabric that was imported from India into Egypt, dating to the late Ayyubid/ early Mamluk period, from the site of Quseir al-Qadim in Egypt – Analysis by grantee Fiona Handley as part of her research on Islamic Clothing in UK Collections 2007/2008