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== Architecture ==
[[File:Mzab Ghardaïa.jpg|thumb|Mzab Ghardaïa]]
There are five ''[[ksar|qsur]]'' "walled villages" (''ksour'') located on rocky outcrops along the Wəd Mzab collectively known as ''the Pentapolis''. They are [[Ghardaïa]] ''Tagherdayt'', the principal settlement today; [[Beni Isguen]] ''At Isjen''; [[Melika]] ''At Mlishet''; [[Bounoura]] ''At Bunur''; and [[El Atteuf]] ''Tajnint''. Adding the more recent settlements of [[Bérianne]] and [[El Guerrara]], the ''Mzab Heptapolis'' is completed.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.worldheritagesite.org/sites/mzabvalley.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2010-09-23 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101224103436/http://worldheritagesite.org/sites/mzabvalley.html |archivedate=2010-12-24 |df= }}</ref>
The combination of the functional purism of the Ibāḍī faith with the oasian way of life has led to a strict organization of land and space. Each citadel has a fortress-like [[mosque]], whose [[minaret]] served as a watchtower. Houses of standard size and type were constructed in concentric circles around the mosque. The architecture of the M'zab settlements was designed for egalitarian communal living, with respect for family privacy. The Mzab building style is of Libyan-Phoenician type, more specifically of Berber style and has been replicated in other parts of the Sahara.<ref name="Houtsma">{{cite encyclopedia|last=Houtsma|first=Martijn Theodoor|title=Mzab|encyclopedia=E.J. Brill's first encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913–1936|publisher=BRILL|year=1987|volume=2|pages=167|isbn=90-04-08265-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GpQ3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA167}}</ref>
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* [http://whc.unesco.org/archive/advisory_body_evaluation/188.pdf UNESCO Advisory Body Evaluation]
* [http://www.chris-kutschera.com/A/Mzab.htm The changing world of Mzab]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160606011518/http://www.mzabnet.com/ Mzab Net The Mozabit Network]
{{World Heritage Sites in Algeria}}
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