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Illustration from
Maqamat of al-Hariri
Bibliothèque nationale de France, manuscript Arabe 6094, 619H, 1222-23AD
Folio 167 Recto: maqama 46 Abu Zayd teaching
Abû Zayd enseignant
24. Classroom scene from Maqāmāt manuscript dated 1222, probably from Syria.
Some of the schoolboys are wearing Turkish military kalawta caps, a medieval parallel to the military caps worn by students in 19th- and early 20th century Central and Eastern Europe
(Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, ms arabe 6094, fol. 167).
Source: Fig. 24, Arab Dress. From the dawn of Islam to Modern times by Smirna Si
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