جوهرة الفنون الإسلامية

It is an architectural element represented in the emergence of rooms on the first floor or above, and extends over the street or inside the building courtyard (in houses with middle courtyards). The mashrabiya is also built from carved, decorated and lined wood with colored glass, and it is one of the elements of traditional desert architecture in hot Arab countries, as it began to appear in the sixth century AH (thirteenth century AD) during the Abbasid era, and continued to be used until the early twentieth century AD, and the use of mashrabiyas frequently in Palaces and traditional houses, but they were also used in some public buildings..