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Title: Cairo, Jerusalem, and Damascus:
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Margoliouth, David Samuel, 1858-1940. (from old catalog) Tyrwhitt, Walter Spencer-Stanhope, 1859-1932, (from old catalog) illus
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Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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meant, whose installation at Cairo constituted oneof Baibars masterstrokes. Thèse Mameluke Sultansseem to hâve been quite ready to acknowledge theiroriginal status ; and one of the adjectives employed asa title of the founder means that he was the f reedmanof the Ayyubid Sultan Salih. The same Sultan was also the founder of a school^(madrasah) called the Zahiriyyah, which used tobe in the Nahassin Street, forming part of the ancientavenue Between the two Palaces. This was erectedin 1263, when the Sultan was in Syria, on the site ofpart of the old Fatimide Palace called the GoldenGâte. It had four liwans, one for each school of law,according to the System already prevailing; it wasf urnished with a rich library, and beside it was builta school for instructing poor orphans in the Koran.The buildings in the space between the Zuwailahand Faraj Gates (outside the city) were settled onthe madrasah, which was to be supported by theîrrents. In Makrizis time it had been superseded by (116)
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A STREET NEAR EL GAMALIYEII. THE FIRST MAMELUKE SOVEREIGNS the numerous other institutions of the same kindwhich had been erected in the neighbourhood; till1870 some ruins still remained; but in 1874 ^^^ ruinswere almost entirely removed, owing to the cuttingof a new street to the Bait al-Kadi. One of the doorsin finely wrought bronze was discovered by M. vanBerchem in the French Consulate-general, whitherit had been taken apparently at the time when theruins were cleared away. It bears an inscriptionwith the name of the Sultan, and a date in somewhatlater style. One chronicler crédits Baibars with rebuildingal-Azhar after it had been in ruins since the timeof Hakim, but this must be a gross exaggeration.He also built a bridge over the Great Canal, longfamous as The Lions Bridge, so called after somestone lions with which it was adorned, and whichwere put there because the animal figured on theSultans coat of arms. This bridge was near SayyidahZainab, and was of great height. The gre

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