The Ayyubid Quarter

This street runs almost parallel to the one that ends in front of the façade of the Church of Saint Mary, and both represent a significant part of the Ayyubid-era reconstructions that transformed the castle from a Crusader fortress into a fortified citadel.
Later, during the Mamluk period, part of the vaulted roofing was rebuilt, and the Public Palace was constructed.

• ^{Hamarneh, Basema, and Michele Nucciotti. “Shawbak and South Transjordan in the Ayyubid epoch.” In Da Petra a Shawbak. Archeologia di una frontiera. Catalogo della Mostra, edited by Guido Vannini, and Michele Nucciotti, 110-115. Firenze: Giunti, 2009.}
• ^{Vannini, Guido, and Michele Nucciotti. “L’età crociato-ayyubide e la nascita di una frontiera medievale.” In La Transgiordania nei secoli XII-XIII e le “frontiere” del Mediterraneo medievale, edited by Guido Vannini, and Michele Nucciotti, 135-144. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2012.}
• ^{Nucciotti, Michele. “Analisi stratigrafiche degli elevati: primi risultati.” In Archeologia dell’insediamento crociato-ayyubide in Transgiordania. Il progetto Shawbak, edited by Guido Vannini, 27-55. Firenze: All’Insegna del Giglio, 2007.}

The identification of a specific technique used to finish the surfaces of stone blocks at the corners of buildings along this street axis allowed archaeologists to recognize the “signature” of the builders commissioned by Sultan Al-Muʿazzam ʿĪsā to work on the castle.

_{For further information:}

• ^{Nucciotti, Michele, and Elisa Pruno. “Great and Little Traditions in medieval Petra and Shawbak: contextualizing local building industry and pottery production in cc. 12-13.” Archeologia Medievale 43 (2016): 309-320.}