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  2. Tadelakt - Wikipedia

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    The term tadelakt, meaning "to rub in", is an Amazighified expression from the Arabic word ‏ تدليك ‎ tadlīk, meaning "to rub or massage." [3] [4] Tadelakt is thought to have evolved from qadad, a similar plaster used in Yemen for millennia that is treated with calcium hydroxide and oils and fats instead of soaps. [2]

  3. Chahartaq (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    Chartaqi was a prominent element in Iranian architecture, having various functions and used in both secular and religious contexts for 1,500 years, with the first instance apparently being developed in the Sasanian city of Gor (Firuzabad) in 210s AD by King Ardashir I.

  4. Qadad - Wikipedia

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    The Amiriya School, built of qadad A minaret of the over 1300-year-old Great Mosque of Sana'a in Yemen, which is built with qadad.It is now being restored. Qadad (Arabic: قضاض qaḍāḍ) or qudad is a waterproof plaster surface, made of a lime plaster treated with slaked lime and oils and fats.

  5. Category:Moisture protection - Wikipedia

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  6. Soap scum - Wikipedia

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    Soap scum or lime soap is the white solid composed of calcium stearate, magnesium stearate, and similar alkaline earth metal derivatives of fatty acids. These materials result from the addition of soap and other anionic surfactants to hard water.

  7. Semi-dome - Wikipedia

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    Semi-domes are a common feature of apses in Ancient Roman and traditional church architecture, and in mosques and iwans in Islamic architecture.. A semi-dome, or the whole apse, may also be called a conch after the scallop shell often carved as decoration of the semi-dome (all shells were conches in Ancient Greek), though this is usually used for subsidiary semi-domes, rather than the one over ...

  8. Zellij - Wikipedia

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    Mosaic tiling from the Qal'at Bani Hammad (present-day Algeria), 11th century. Zellij fragments from al-Mansuriyya (Sabra) in Tunisia, possibly dating from either the mid-10th century Fatimid foundation or from the mid-11th Zirid occupation, suggest that the technique may have developed in the western Islamic world around this period. [5]

  9. Kucheh - Wikipedia

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    A Kucheh in Kashan.Photo was taken from entrance to Tabatabaei House looking outside into the Kucheh.. In traditional Persian architecture, a kucheh or koocheh (Persian: کوچه), is a narrow especially designed alley. [1]