Al-Amiriya (Arabic:المدرسة العامرية) is a 16th-centurymadrasa (educational institution) located inRada,Yemen. It is under consideration for inscription as aUNESCO World Heritage Site.^[1] It was built in 1504 and is an example of the architecture ofTahirids, Yemen. The monument was in poor condition until 1978 when Iraqi-born archaeologistSelma Al-Radi saw it and enlisted financial help from foreign missions to restore it in a more than twenty-year effort which she led.^[1][2]

This site was added to theUNESCOWorld Heritage Tentative List on July 8, 2002, in the Cultural category.^[1]

The restoration process revived the art ofqadad, a form of waterproof interior and exterior plastering. In 2004 a documentary film,Qudad, Re-inventing a Tradition, was made on the subject by the filmmaker Caterina Borelli (preview).^[3]

The restoration of the Amiriya Complex was awarded theAga Khan Award for Architecture in 2007.^[4]

• More pictures of Amiriya Complex
• Qadad

• Al-Radi, S.; Barnes, R.; Al-Nasiri, Y.; Porter, V.; Hillenbrand, R. (1997).The 'Amiriya in Rada' : the history and restoration of a sixteenth-century madrasa in the Yemen. Title of Series: Oxford studies in Islamic art; 13. Oxford: Oxford University Press, for the Board of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford.ISBN 0-19-728023-4

• Buildings and structures completed in 1504
• Madrasas in Yemen
• Educational institutions established in the 1500s
• Radda District

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