Editing Almohad Caliphate (section)

==== Ceramics and tilework ====
[[File:Marrakesh Kasbah Mosque ceramic fragments (Morocco exhibit).jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|Fragment of [[Kufic]] inscription on ''[[cuerda seca]]'' tiles formerly around the minaret of the [[Kasbah Mosque (Marrakech)|Kasbah Mosque]]]]
[[Jonathan Bloom]] cites the white and green glazed tiles on the [[minaret]] of the [[Kutubiyya Mosque]], dating from the mid-12th century in the early Almohad period, as the earliest reliably-dated example of ''[[zellij]]'' in Morocco.<ref name=":06">{{Cite book |last1=Bloom |first1=Jonathan |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/The_Minbar_from_the_Kutubiyya_Mosque |title=The Minbar from the Kutubiyya Mosque |last2=Toufiq |first2=Ahmed |last3=Carboni |first3=Stefano |last4=Soultanian |first4=Jack |last5=Wilmering |first5=Antoine M. |last6=Minor |first6=Mark D. |last7=Zawacki |first7=Andrew |last8=Hbibi |first8=El Mostafa |publisher=The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Ediciones El Viso, S.A., Madrid; Ministère des Affaires Culturelles, Royaume du Maroc |year=1998 |isbn= |location= |pages=26 |language=en}}</ref> The tiles currently installed on the minaret are modern reproductions of the original decoration, but some of the original tiles were preserved in a collection kept at the [[El Badi Palace|Badi Palace]].{{Sfn|Lintz|Déléry|Tuil Leonetti|2014|p=329}} The same collection has also preserved fragments of the original tile decoration on the minaret of the [[Kasbah Mosque (Marrakech)|Kasbah Mosque]], including fragments of a [[Kufic]] inscription which is no longer present on the minaret today. These latter fragments are also the earliest surviving example of ''[[cuerda seca]]'' tilework (a technique originating in al-Andalus) being used in an architectural context.{{Sfn|Lintz|Déléry|Tuil Leonetti|2014|p=332}}