Renting Houses in Islamic cities: An archaeological study in light of al-Kindi's story by al- Ğāḥiẓ

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Archeology, Fayoum University.

2 Assistant Lecturer, Faculty of Archeology, Fayoum University

Abstract

Renting houses are an important model for studying city community through dealings and its governing controls. This research paper aims to take renting houses as a model for the jurisprudence of civil real estate transactions in the Islamic city, by extrapolating the heritage, linguistic and cultural connotations in al-Kindi's story by the brilliant writer “Al- Ǧāḥiẓ”, whose content is in agreement with the practical reality of the houses from the third century until the fourteenth century A.H  all over  Islamic cities. This extrapolation determines the aspects of the functional occupation of this house, and the elements used in it, in addition to determining the names of those elements and their linguistic and idiomatic connotations

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