1906 Color Print Maktab Kuttab Sebeel Mosque Primary School Robert Talbot XGOB7 XEY8 MAY1A12C96

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1906 Color Print Maktab Kuttab Sebeel Mosque Primary School Robert Talbot XGOB7 XEY8 MAY1A12C96This is an original 1906 color print of the Maktab, or Kuttab of the Sultan al Nasir Muhammad ibn Qala'un Mosque in Cairo, Egypt. The Maktab, referred to here as the "sebeel," would have been built adjoined to the public fountain of the mosque (Sabil) and served as an elementary school, in fact, the model founded by Ibn Sina, philosopher and teacher was so successful that in the middle ages, regions with maktabs in their mosques had a higher literacy