Image Gallery of Khān Yūnus, Khan Yunis (Khān Yūnus)
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Moain Sadeq, art. "Gaza, art and architecture", Encyclopaedia of Islam Three:
"... built in 789/1387 by the amīr Yūnus al-Nawrūzī, the dāwādār ([...] the senior official/writer) of the Mamlūk sultan al-Ẓāhir Barqūq (r. 784–91/1382–9 and 784–91/1382–9). The name of present-day Khān Yūnus [...] refers to this khān and the name of its founder. In order to protect the caravan merchants and their belongings during their stay at the khān, which stands in an open area on the route between Egypt and al-Shām, the khān was originally surrounded by a solid square enclosure measuring approximately 85.5 metres in length, equipped with a massive gate and round corner towers, arrow slits, battlements, and slots in the gateway roof from which to drop missiles in case of attack. [...] Its central open courtyard was surrounded by two storeys of rooms for accommodating visitors and storing goods [...]. A number of European travellers visited the khān during the Ottoman period, among them Gottlieb Schumacher in 1886 and Alois Musil in 1908 [...]."
