Reddit reviews The Minbar of Saladin: Reconstructing a Jewel of Islamic Art

What they rebuilt is called "The Minbar of Saladin",

>Made of 16,000 pieces of intricately carved wood, adorned with ivory and ebony, it was widely acknowledged as a pinnacle of Islamic design and woodcarving.

>This book on the Minbar’s reconstruction tells of the quest to fathom the principles of Islamic sacred geometry and to decipher how the Minbar’s complex patterns were created. This was followed by a worldwide search for materials and for craftsmen who still possessed the necessary skills—skills that had seemed lost in today’s world of mass production and modern technology.

This comes from the summary of a book about it that I have not read.

edit: formating