Beit Al Mamlouka

The hotel consists has eight bedrooms (two single, two double and four suites), with courtyard, terrace and private patios. The hotel features an Old Bayke (stable) converted into a gallery, restaurant and bar. The walls display local art for sale and hand painted verses of old Arabic poetry.

Each room has been awarded a different name and is decorated in its own style, reflecting the period of history.

Each room is exotically entitled and decorated in traditional Syrian style using local products. Aleppo brocade is used to make the curtains and the queen sized beds are fitted with Damascene quilts. The bathrooms are tiled with hand painted mosaics and drawings.

This room has a queen sized bed.

Aghia Sophia, Church of the Holy Wisdom, is the most famous Byzantine structure in Constantinople (now Istanbul). It was built (532-37) by Emperor Justinian I and is now a museum. Its huge size and daring technical innovations make it one of the world's key monuments.

This room has a queen sized bed.

Harun ar-Rashid (766-809) was the fifth caliph (786-809) of the Abbasid dynasty of Baghdad. He was the son of the third Abbasid caliph, al-Mahdi, and succeeded to the throne on the death of his brother al-Hadi.

This room has a king sized bed.

This room has a king sized bed.

Ibn Sina ‘Avicenna', Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Abd Allah ibn Sina, (980-1037) was an Iranian Islamic philosopher and physician, born near Bukhara (now Uzbekistan).

This room has a king sized bed.

Ibn Rished ‘Averros' in Arabic, Abu al-Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Rushd (1126-98), Spanish-Arab Islamic philosopher, jurist and physician, was born in Cordoba, Spain. His father, a judge in Cordoba, instructed him in Muslim jurisprudence. He studied theology, philosophy and mathematics under the Arab philosopher Ibn Tufayl and medicine under the Arab physician Avenzoar.

This suite has a king sized bed.

Suites range in size but the largest and most famous is the Suleiman Suite. Large, pampering bathrooms in mosaic style marble and tiles echo the Mamlouk period of the hotel's origins.

The suite contains its own fountain in the shape of a rose and an original 230-year-old Christian fresco on the ceiling.

Suleyman I, called The Magnificent (1494-1566), was a sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1520-1566). During his reign, the empire reached its zenith of power and splendour.

This room has a king sized bed.

Baybars I (1233-1277), Mamluk Sultan of Egypt (1260-1277), was originally a Turkish slave who rose to power through military skill. In 1260, he led the Mamluks against the Mongols at the Battle of Ayn Jalut, Palestine. Shortly afterwards, he killed the Sultan and assumed supreme control. During his rule, Egypt became the most powerful Muslim state in the Middle East.