Bab (gateway)

Bāb (باب) is an Arabic word for gateway, also found as a loanword in Persian and Ottoman Turkish. Commonly used names of several gateways built throughout the centuries in Arabic or Persianate societies start with "Bab", such as the Babs of Cairo and those of Marrakech.

Ottoman Empire

• Bab-ı Âli, the Sublime Porte
• Bab-üs Saadet, the Gate of Felicity of the Topkapı Palace

Egypt

• Bab El Fetouh
• Al-Bāb al-Jadīd (the New Gate), built in 1170 in the eastern wall; still remains
• Bāb al-Ghūrī (the Gate of the Attacker)
• Bāb al-Ḩusayniyyah (Ḩusayniyyah Gate, referring to a district)
• Bāb al-Khalq (the Gate of Creation)
• Bab El Khoga
• Bāb al-Nasr (the Gate of Victory)
• Bāb al-Qanţarah (the Gate of the Bridge)
• Bāb al-Qilà (the Gate of Alkali)
• Bāb al-Sharī‘ah (the Gate of Law)
• Bāb al-Silsilah (the Gate of the Chain)
• Bāb al-Sirr (the Gate of the Secret)
• Bāb al-Tawfīq (the Gate of Success)
• Bāb al-Wazīr (the Minister's Gate), opened in 1341 by the wazīr *(minister of state) Najm al-Dīn Muḩammad; still remains
• Bāb Khān al-Khalīlī (Khān al-Khalīlī Gate, referring to a *district)
• Bāb Sa‘ādah (Gate of Happiness)
• Bāb Darb al-Laban (Milk Road Gate)
• Bab Zuweila

Morocco

• Bab Agnaou
• Bab er Robb

Tunisia

• Bab el Khadra
• Bab Saadoun

See also

• Gate

Islamic architecture
Category	Arabic architecture Berber architecture Iranian architecture Islamic architecture Mughal architecture Ottoman architecture
Styles	Abbasid Anatolia Beyliks Ayyubid Azeri Bengali Chinese Fatimid Indo-Islamic Indonesian-Malaysian Isfahani Khorasani Mamluk Modern Moorish Moroccan Mudéjar Mughal Ottoman Razi Seljuk Somali Sudano-Sahelian Tatar Timurid Umayyad Vernacular Persian Yemenite
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Types	Alcázar Amsar Bab Baradari Bazaar Caravanserai Dar al-Shifa Dargah Gongbei Jama Masjid Jama'at Khana Kasbah Khanqah Ksar Külliye Madrasa Mahal Maqam Maqbara Mazar Medina quarter Mosque Musalla Qalat Qasaba Qasr Qubba Rauza Ribat Souq Surau Tekyeh Türbe Turkish bath Well house Zawiya
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