Sultan Shah mosque, Cairo, Egypt

This pattern appears on the side of the minbar of the Sultan Shah mosque. This minbar is now in the V and A.

• The symmetry group of the tiling is *632 (p6m).
• All the internal angles of the constituent polygons are a multiple of 12°.
• Contains one regular pentagon.
• Contains one regular 6-pointed star polygon with vertex angle of 108°.
• There are 7 non-regular reflective tiles (including 3 kites).
• The tiling satisfies the interlace condition and has two finite interlaces and one infinite interlace with straight cross-overs.
• The tiling is edge-to-edge.
• As drawn, contains about 225 polygons.

1. Photo by David Wade: VA 065 (Sultan Shah mosque, Cairo, Egypt) of David Wade. Website: patterninislamicart.com, UK, 2015. [wadei] {Website}(1468-96AD, 872-901AH)
2. Page 222 (Azbak al-Yusufi, Cairo, Egypt. Minbar, lower panel) of Bernard O'Kane. The Mosques of Egypt, AUC, Cairo, 2016. ISBN 978977416732. [okane2] {}(1494-5AD, 899-900AH)
3. 1050:1 to 2-1869 (Cairo, Egypt. Minbar) of V&A collections website. Website: collections.vam.ac.uk, UK, 2015. [vami] {Website}

• Wade photo VA 065
• V&A record Minbar

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