الميثاق
Two houses of the crafts.
One shared rule.
For those who wish to pass on a craft or learn one.
For those who wish to study the Al-Mithaq project.
For those who wish to support and help Al-Mithaq.
For those who ask to stay in the House or at Dar al-Diyafa.
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Al-Mithaq is a project under construction: a house that trains, in the medina of Fez, and a network of fondouks in the cities of the Mediterranean, where the masters trained in Fez work and local young men begin. Beside each house, Al-Munya, the guesthouse, receives those who come from outside.
The project starts from a simple idea: to give the crafts continuity, one must protect the craftsman and his way of life, even before what he makes. A single page sets out its reasons and principles, the bodies that make it up and the thresholds of its start.
Al-Mithaq in briefTwo houses where one learns and works. Beside each, Al-Munya, the guesthouse.
The house of formation, in Fez. A courtyard closed to the street and open to the sky; the first workshop is that of fine saddlery, which brings together wood, leather and metal, and the others will join it over time. The house is still to be found.
The house of the craft, in the province of Ragusa. Its name is that of the fondaco where Ibn Jubayr lodged in Messina. The discipline governs the work of the craft and the common life, and the threshold is secular. Around it, the land that feeds those who live in the house.
The guesthouse bordering the Riad and the Funduq. It is organised in two separate structures: Dār al-Aṣl, which receives without charge those invited by the community; and Dār al-Diyāfa, where the nudamāʾ and their guests stay at their own expense. From the munya of Ibn Luyūn it takes up the design of its waters and the distinction between sojourn and work.
The nizam ad-dar governs work, apprenticeship and shared life. The same rule takes body in two different places: the patio of the medina in Fez and the courtyard of the masseria in Sicily.
The rule