A combination of turquoise glazed and simple bricks is forming a net of big squares put to a corner filled with repeated inscription of Koranic maintenance.
The uses and meanings of these were different: maktab literacy was associated with Koranic schools, schooled literacy with secularization and modernization, and commercial literacy with the fruit trade.
For generations, parents sent their sons to live with Koranic teachers or marabouts, who more often forced children to beg than ensured their progress in religious studies.
