Founder: Šihab abu alʿAbbas Aḥmad ībn Zayn al-Dīn Dulāmā.
Year of foundation: 847 A.H. (1443-1444 C.E.).
Style: Mamluke.
The school was modernized in 1302 AH (1884-85 C.E.) by a member of the Mardam Bek family and in 1305 (1887-1888) by ʿAlī al Mu'āyyād ībn Aẖmad Bek al Mu'āyyād.
Significance: important.
Condition of the building: good but with a modern extension.
Stefan Weber. Damascus: Ottoman Modernity and Urban Transformation 1808–1918, Proceedings of the Danish Institute of Damascus V 2009.
Karl Wulzinger & Carl Watzinger. Damaskus, die Islamische Stadt. Walter de Gruyter 1924.
2nd Photo:: Akram H. Olaby. H̱itat Dimašq, Dar al-Tabbaa 1989.
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