Above the two doors from the porticoes to the prayer hall are windows with their original screen in perforated stucco. Awkward whitewash makes the details difficult to observe, but the arabesque design is much more developed than in the windows of al-Bimaristān an-Nūrī. Thus, both mutually attest that they are part of the original structures.
Ernst Herzfeld. Damascus, Studies in Architecture IV. Ars Islamica XIII-XIV 1948 (p. 118-138).
Photo credit: Gérard Degeorge. Syrie. Hermann éditeurs des sciences et des arts. Paris 1983 (p. 176).
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