Bourgoin, Plate 48

One of the commonest of all Islamic patterns, throughout Islam from Spain, Morocco to India. Appears to occur in 8 places in Fatehpur Sikri.

• The symmetry group of the tiling is *442 (p4m).
• All the internal angles of the constituent polygons are a multiple of 22.5°.
• Contains one regular octagon.
• Contains one regular 8-pointed star polygon with vertex angle of 90°.
• There are three non-regular reflective tiles (including one kite).
• The tiling satisfies the interlace condition and has no finite interlace and one infinite interlace with straight cross-overs.
• The tiling is edge-to-edge.
• As drawn, contains about 257 polygons.

1. Page 287, Fig 173a (Friday Mosque, Sin, Iran) from [bonner] (1134AD, 528AH)
2. Page 76 (The Tomb of Jalal al-Din Hussein, Central Asia) from [broug] (1152AD, 546AH)
3. Figure 20 (Alaaddin Mosque, Konya, Turkey. Minbar) from [aslanapa] (1155AD, 549AH)
4. Fig 6 (c) (Mu’mina Khatun, Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan, Central Asia) from [cromwell4] (1186AD, 581AH)
5. Fig 9 (a) (Gulustan Mausoleum, Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan, Central Asia) from [cromwell4] (1200AD, 596AH)
6. Figure 517 (Zahiriyah Madrasah, Aleppo, Syria) from [hill] (1223AD, 619AH)
7. Photo by David Wade: TUR 0826 (Alaeddin mosque, Nigde, Turkey) from [wadei] (1223AD, 619AH)
8. Photo by David Wade: EGY 1109 (Qalawun, Cairo, Egypt) from [wadei] (1279AD, 677AH)
9. Figure 51 (Qalawun, Cairo, Egypt. Pierced windows) from [hill2] (1283-4AD, 681-2AH)
10. Figure 50 (al-Abbar, Cairo, Egypt. Pierced windows round drum of dome) from [hill] (1284-5AD, 682-3AH)
11. Vol 2, page 23 (Taybars, Cairo, Egypt) from [wahhab] (1309AD, 708AH)
12. Photo by David Wade: IRA 2637 (Oljaito's mausoleum, Sultaniyeh, Iran) from [wadei] (1313AD, 712AH)
13. Figure 456 (Sungur Bey mosque, Nigde, Turkey. Carved wooden door) from [hill] (1338AD, 738AH)
14. Plate 28 and 30 (Koran 98 vol 1f. 178r, National Library, Egypt) from [wilson] (15th century AD)
15. Figure 209 (Great Mosque, Aksaray, Turkey. Minbar) from [aslanapa] (1431AD, 834AH)
16. Plate 43 (Fatehpur Sikri, India) from [burckhardt] (1565-1605AD, 972-1014AH)
17. Part I, Plate LXXIV (Fatehpur Sikri, Friday Mosque, India) from [smith2] (1648AD, 1058AH)
18. Page 282 (Amir Hassan ibn Amir Muhammad, Akhmim, Egypt. minbar) from [okane2] (1704-7AD, 1116-9AH)
19. Page 284 (al-Qana'i, Fuwwa, Egypt. minbar) from [okane2] (1720AD, 1132AH)
20. Page 333 (Hidaya al-Islami, Rosetta, Egypt. minbar) from [okane2] (1985AD, 1406AH)
21. Fig 17.1 from [ww]
22. Figure 35a from [elsaid]
23. Page 136 from [wade]
24. Page 25 (Ahi Serafettin mosque, Ankara, Turkey. Minbar, left side) from [schneider]
25. Page 30 (Great Mosque, Kairouan, Tunisia) from [broug]
26. Photo 222, from Internet source (shaik al-burdani mosque, mihrab mosaics, with colour) from [d-avennes]
27. Photo by David Wade: EGY 0925 (al-Ghuri, Cairo, Egypt) from [wadei]
28. Photo by David Wade: SYR 0502/0505 (Great Mosque, Aleppo, Syria) from [wadei]
29. Photo from M Sakkal (Junblat House, Aleppo, Syria) from [pc]
30. Plate 48 from [bourgoin]
31. Vol2, page 230, Figure 240 (Great Mosque, Mosul, Iraq. Minaret) from [sarre]

• Wade photo BOU 048
• Wade photo EGY 0925
• Wade photo EGY 1109
• Wade photo IRA 2637
• Wade photo SYR 0502
• Wade photo SYR 0505
• Wade photo TUR 0826
• Wade photo EPC 046

• Tilings from copies of a Koran

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