An enchanted world
Al-Haj Abdul Munim, the 73-year-old man, sits on his chair watching the work inside the shop, which he built from his sincere effort without relying on anyone. He did not inherit the profession from his grandfather, but rather worked it up and started to talk about his beginnings. "I took it from scratch. 12 years, when I decided to leave school and resort to learning workmanship benefit me at work, and were the stones.
Gems are not merely a commodity for sale and purchase, but a world with forms, meanings and connotations. The boy had to learn what the stones were before selling them, and he had to resort to a group of Jews who were the owners of the workshops at the beginning. The stone processing worker, the meaning of the stone and understood the beginning of the end of the stone and the nature of the water was stone or the desert, each stone shape and each shape concerned, so I learned the "Ahk" stone and work forms.
After the Jews left Egypt, the trade in stones spread among the Egyptians, so Morgan moved from dealing with the Jews to the Egyptians.
"He became his beloved and loved her and his king and his kingdom," so Abdul Moneim relationship with precious stones, for which carry the alienation and travel to collect money and return to connect himself to the end of life, explaining that he decided to open his own workshop to be buried in dealing with the stone, He did not have the material to help him travel to Italy, and carrying washing dishes and sleep the streets to be a sum of money and open the workshop, which dreamed of and was "Wush Saad Ala" as described.
According to the owner of the stones, in the workshop everything is done with his hand, where he buys the stones as raw material from Tunisia, and in the workshop is cut and formed as texts or contracts, swell or costume, all forms of natural stone.
The Morjan workshop is the only workshop that can pierce the stone. It says: "I started the idea of the vineyard in the quarantine. I spent nights trying to appreciate the stone, whatever its kind, Almaz, sapphire, coral, without any defects." Punching the precious stone.
From the income of the workshop was able to "Abdel Moneim" to open a special shop, but he worked in the workshop without tireless or bored, noting that he inherited the profession of his children and became owners of shops selling gems in the neighborhood of Salhiya.
Date of Salhiya
As for the Salihiya neighborhood, Mohammed Khalil, the director of the archaeological awareness department, explains that the neighborhood is the remnant of the city. When the Ayyubid state began to remove the Fatimid sect of the Fatimid state by increasing the opening of Sunni schools, The schools were made up of two ions, the north-west and the south-east, with a street ending in the other ions to teach the four schools of thought, Shafi'i, Hanafi, Hambali and Maliki.
The street is characterized by precious stones that come to everyone from around the world to buy precious stones manufactured or original from Al-Salhiyya neighborhood. .
Types of stones
In the book "Precious Stones and Precious Metals" by Mohammed Mohammed, gemstones are a kind of metal that they retain for their beauty and strength. The man uses a large number of metals in the form of jewelry, including jewelry, diamonds, emeralds, opals, and sapphires.
Most of the gemstones are minerals and others are organic. Pearls are formed within the shells of living oysters, and the amber is a resinous resin material produced by old pine trees.
Diamond
Diamond is considered the most famous gemstone in the world and is believed to be the most famous of the Kohenor stone. It was found in India hundreds of years ago and was presented as a gift to British Queen Victoria in 1850 by the British Indian East Indian Company.
Diamonds are one of the most precious natural materials in the world. Due to the hardness of diamonds, it is considered one of the most precious stones in existence. It is widely distributed in America, Europe and Japan, and is used in making engagement and wedding rings.
Coral
Are calcareous formations that have been formed in the sea millions of years ago by very small animals, coral formation such as branches of trees, such as large domes or small crusts, may appear irregular or like very small tube members.
Amber
Is a solid fossil resin consisting mainly of pine resin that had been growing in northern Oroa for hundreds of years. Resin is a mating substance mixed with oils in trees. When oxidation of oils oxidizes these resins and when these trees are buried underground or under water, To amber blocks of irregular shape, the largest amber sources are located in the Baltic Sea region.
Agate
Formed with white ribbons of granular granular granularity, it is primarily found in layers of sedimentary rocks, the most opaque type of agate, whose strips differ in white, gray and black. In some cases, these strips are pale red, yellow or blue.
Agate is mainly used in the work of pins and clasps
Cornelian
Red or reddish quartz can be cut and polished like jewelry Most of the red agate comes from India, South America and Japan, and is used in rings, bracelets and other ornaments.
The ancients believed that the red garnet had a special force that protected its occupants from weapons and evil spirits
Crushed purple or blue-tinted purple stone used in the manufacture of contracts, rings and pins, found in the countries of Sri Lanka, India, Siberia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and Madagascar.
Emerald Rihani
Emeralds are often treated with heat or radiation to improve color. Most emeralds are transparent, most emeralds are Brazilian, and there are also in China, Burma, Argentina, Norway, Ireland, Madagascar, India, Russia and the United States.
Emeralds were known in ancient times, where the Romans believed that the precious stone could cure tuberculosis patients and earn courageous cowards.