Cairo - El-Aqbughawiya Medrese

El-Aqbughawiya Medrese, now a library (60,000 volumes, 15,000 manuscripts). Then through a handsome doorway into the Main Court (Sahn), with five minarets rearing above it. Round the court runs an arcade (restored by Taufiq) with keeled arches of Persian type, decorated with shallow niches and medallions and crowned by crenelations. The liwans on the northeast and southwest sides of the court are used as sleeping and working apartments for students (riwak), distributed according to the countries or provinces from which they come. Adjoining the north liwan is the Court of Ablutions.