Building Materials and Heritage Sites in the Cities of Tabuk and Duba During the Islamic Era

Document Type : Original Article

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Faculty of Archaeology, Ain Shams University, Egypt

Abstract

This topic discusses the extent of the diversity of geographical environments in the cities of Tabuk and Duba, and the resulting many traditional coastal, desert and inland architectural styles that differ from each other in the type of building materials used, their raw materials, construction methods, and their interior and exterior designs. The traditional heritage and historical buildings in the cities of Tabuk and Duba were also distinguished by castles, forts, walls, palaces, houses, and others.
By relying on local environmental materials such as stones, clay, lime, gypsum, wood, marble and other building raw materials that exist in every environment. Also, the construction methods in the cities of Tabuk and Duba mostly revolved around the prevailing unified Islamic architectural framework and style of the traditional building, and the slight differences in the general traditional method of construction from one place to another were subject to some natural considerations. Climatic, economic, social, religious and genetic.

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