Note 65 — Chapter VI

Makrízy describes only nineteen mesgids (apart from those in the Karáfa cemetery), as compared with eighty-seven gámi‘s; and all the nineteen seem to have been unimportant. They were chiefly of Fátimid or Ayyúbid foundation, and situate outside the Zuweyla, Nasr, Kantara, and Sa‘áda Gates, or in the garden of Kafúr, though three were in or near Beyn-el-Kasreyn. None of them is standing now. Makrízy enumerates twenty-five Záwiyas, all but one being Mamlúk foundations, of which seven were outside the Bab-en-Nasr or B. el-Futúh, four outside other gates, five at or near Maks. In short, mesgid would appear to be applied in the Topographer’s time chiefly to the earlier suburban chapels, and záwiya to outlying chapels of the Mamlúk period.