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RULERS AND MONUMENTS OF CAIRO[89]

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RULERS AND MONUMENTS OF CAIRO[89]

1. ARAB PERIOD

A.D. A.H. A.H.

640-868 20-254 Ninety-eight governors under caliphs of Damascus and Baghdād †Mosque of ‘Amr 21

Town of the Tent (el-Fusṭāṭ) 21

First Nilometer at er-Rōḍa 98

Faubourg el-‘Askar 133

*Second Nilometer at er-Rōḍa 247

2. TURKISH PERIOD

HOUSE OF ṬŪLŪN

868 254 Aḥmad ibn Ṭūlūn Faubourg el-Ḳaṭāi‘ 256

Palaces of el-Ḳaṭāi‘ 256 ff.

Māristān 259

*Mosque of Ibn-Ṭūlūn 263-5

883 270 Khumāraweyh b. Aḥmad Palaces of el-Ḳaṭāi‘ 270 ff.

895 282 Geysh b. Khumāraweyh

896 283 Hārūn b. Khumāraweyh

904 292 Sheybān b. Aḥmad b. Ṭūlūn

CALIPHS’ GOVERNORS

905-934 292-323 Thirteen governors

HOUSE OF EL-IKHSHĪD

934 323 Moḥammad el-Ikhshīd Palace in Kāfūr’s Garden and at Rōḍa

946 334 Abū-l-Ḳāsim Ūngūr b. el-Ikhshīd Māristān at Fusṭāṭ 346

960 349 Abū-l-Ḥasan ‘Aly b. el-Ikhshīd Mosque of el-Gīza 350

966 355 Abū-l-Misk Kāfūr

968 358 Abū-l-Fawāris Aḥmad b. ‘Aly

3. FĀṬIMID PERIOD.

969 358 el-Mo‘izz Foundation of el-Ḳāhira 358

Great East Palace, etc. 358

*Mosque el-Azhar 359

975 365 el-‘Azīz West Palace, etc.

*Mosque of el-Ḥākim 380-403

996 386 el-Ḥākim Mosque of Rāshida 393-5

„ el-Maḳs

1021 411 eẓ-Ẓāhir

1036 427 el-Mustanṣir *Mosque el-Guyūshy 478

*Bāb-en-Naṣr, *Bāb-el-Futūḥ, *Second wall, *Bāb-Zuweyla 480-484

Mosque of Nilometer 485

1094 487 el-Musta‘ly

1101 495 el-Āmir *Mosque el-Aḳmar 519

Several mesgids (Yānis, Kāfūry, Bāb-el-Khawkha)

*Mihrābs of Azhar and Seyyida Ruḳeyya

1131 524 el-Ḥāfiẓ

1149 544 eẓ-Ẓāfir †Mosque el-Afkhar 543

1154 549 el-Fāiz

1160 555 el-‘Āḍid *Mosque of eṣ-Ṣālih Ṭalāi‘ 555

4. HOUSE OF SALADIN

1169 565 en-Nāṣir Ṣalāḥ-ed-dīn (Saladin) ibn Ayyūb Mosque of Negm-ed-dīn Ayyūb 566

College Nāṣirīya 566

„ Ḳamḥiya 566

„ Ḳuṭbīya 570

„ Ibn-el-Arsūfy 570

„ Suyūfīya 572

Citadel and 3rd Wall begun 572

Māristān 575

College el-Fāḍilīya 580

1193 589 el-‘Azīz, son of Saladin Mosque of Ibn-el-Benā c. 591

College Ushkushīya 592

1198 595 el-Manṣūr b. el-‘Azīz „ Ghaznawīya

1200 596 el-‘Adil Seyf-ed-dīn „ ‘Ādilīya

„ Sherīfīya 612

1218 615 el-Kāmil b. el-‘Ādil Restor. of M. of Shāfi‘y 607

*College Kāmilīya 622

„ Fakhrīya 622

Zāwiya Ḳaṣry c. 633

M. Ibn-esh-Sheykhy c. 633

1238 635 el-‘Ādil II. b. el-Kāmil College Ṣayramīya c. 636

„ Fāizīya 636

1240 637 eṣ-Ṣāliḥ Ayyūb b. el-Kāmil „ *Ṣāliḥīya 639

Mosque, etc., of er-Rōḍa

1249 647 el-Mu‘aẓẓam Tūrān-Shāh b. eṣ-Ṣāliḥ Zāwiya Khaddām 647

5. TURKISH MAMLŪKS

1250 648 Queen Sheger-ed-durr *Tomb of eṣ-Ṣāliḥ 648

1250 648 el-Mo‘izz Aybek College Ḳuṭbīya 650

„ Ṣāḥibīya 654

1257 655 el-Manṣūr ‘Aly b. Aybek

1259 657 el-Muẓaffar Ḳuṭuz

1260 658 eẓ-Ẓāhir Beybars *College Ẓāhirīya 660

Meshhed el-Ḥoseyny 662

College Megdīya 663

Mosque el-Afram 663

*Mosque eẓ-Ẓāhir 665

College Muhedhdhibīya

„ Fārikānīya 676

1277 676 es-Sa‘īd Baraka b. Beybars

1279 678 el-‘Ādil Selāmish b. Beybars

1279 679 el-Manṣūr Ḳalā’ūn *College Manṣūrīya and Māristān Ḳalā’ūn 684

Zāwiya el-Gemīzy 682

„ el-Ga‘bary 687

„ el-Halāwy 683

Convent el-Bunduḳdārīya 688

1290 689 el-Ashraf Khalīl b. Ḳalā’ūn *Gate from ‘Akka

1293 693 en-Nāṣir Moḥammad b. Ḳalā’ūn

1294 694 el-‘Ādil Ketbughā

1296 696 el-Manṣūr Lāgīn Restor. M. of Ibn-Ṭūlūn 696

College Ṭafagīya c. 698

„ Mangūtimurīya 698

1298 698 en-Nāṣir, second reign „ *Nāṣirīya 699-703

„ Karāsunḳurīya 700

„ Gemālīya 703

Restor. of Ḥākim, Azhar, Ṭalāi‘ 703-4

Mosque of Ṭaybars 707

1308 708 el-Muẓaffar Beybars Gāshnekīr *Convent of Beybars 706-9

1309 709 en-Nāṣir, third reign *College Ṭaybarsīya 709

Zāwiya of el-Ḥimṣy 709

Mosque of el-Gāky 713

*Citadel palace, aqueduct 713

College Sa‘īdīya 715

Convent of Arslān c. 717

*Mosque of Citadel 718

*Mosque of emīr Ḥoseyn 719

*College Ālmelikīya 719

*College Gāwalīya 723

*Tomb of Ordūtegīn 724

*College Mihmandāriya 725

„ Buktumurīya 726

Mosque of el-Khazāny 729

„ *of Almās 730

„ el-Barḳīya 730

*Mosque of Ḳūṣūn 730

„ of Sārūgā c. 730

*College Aḳbughawīya 734

*Tomb of Tāshtimur 734

*Palace of Beshtāk c. 735

*Convent of Ḳūṣūn 736

„ at Siryāḳūs 736

†Mosque of Beshtāk 736

„ Aydemir 737

„ et-Turkmāny 738

„ *el-Māridāny 740

1341 741 el-Manṣūr Abū-Bekr sons of en-Nāṣir „ *Sitta Miska 740

„ Ibn-Ghāzy 741

1341 742 el-Ashraf Kuguk

1342 742 en-Nāṣir Aḥmad

1342 743 eṣ-Ṣāliḥ Ismā‘īl Mosque of eṭ-Ṭawāshy 745

1345 746 el-Ḳāmil Sha‘bān „ Ibn-eṭ-Ṭabbākh 746

1346 747 el-Muẓaffar Ḥāggy „ *Kuguk 747

1347 748 en-Nāṣir Ḥasan „ †Āḳsunḳur 747

„ †el-Ismā‘īly 748

„ *Ḳutlubugha 748

„ el-Asyūṭy c. 749

*Convent of Umm-Anūk c. 749

„ Algībughā c. 750

*Mosque of Mangak 750

„ *Sheykhū 750

College of el-Kharrūba 750

*Cistern of Lāgīn 750

College Ḳaysarānīya 751

„ Ṣaghīra 751

1351 752 eṣ-Ṣāliḥ Ṣāliḥ b. Nāṣir

1354 755 Ḥasan, second reign *Convent of Sheykhū 756

College Fārisīya 756

„ *Ṣarghitmishīya 756

„ *Sulṭān Ḥasan 757 ff.

„ Bedīrīya 758

„ *Ḥigāzīya 761

„ Beshīrīya 761

1361 762 el-Manṣūr Moḥammad grand-sons of en-Nāṣir „ Sābiḳīya 763

1363 764 el-Ashraf Sha‘bān *Tomb of Ṭulbīya 765

*Mosque of Sha‘bān 771

*College Bubekrīya (Asunbughā) 772

*College of Gāy el-Yūsufy 775

„ Baḳrīya c. 775

1376 778 el-Manṣūr ‘Aly b. Sha‘bān „ Ibn-‘Irām 782

1381 783 eṣ-Ṣāliḥ Ḥāggy b. Sha‘bān (dep. 1382, restored 1389-90) Tomb of Umm-Ṣāliḥ 783

6. CIRCASSIAN MAMLŪKS

1382 784 eẓ-Ẓāhir Barḳūḳ *Tomb of Anas 783

[interrupted 791-2 by Ḥāggy] *College of Aytmish 785

*College of Barḳūḳ 788

*Mosque of Zeyn-ed-dīn 790

*College of Īnāl Ustāddār 795

„ Maḥmūdīya 797

„ *Muḳbil Zemāmīya 797

„ Ibn-Ghurāb 798

1399 801 en-Nāṣir Farag b. Barḳūḳ M. of Ibn-‘Abd-eẓ-Ẓāhir 803

*College of Sūdūn 804

„ Mahally c. 806

1405 808 el-Manṣūr ‘Abd-el-‘Azīz b. Barḳūḳ *Convent and Tomb of Barḳūḳ and Farag, and College of Farag 803-13

1405 809 Farag, second reign *College of Gemāl-ed-dīn 811

Mosque of Hōsh (Citadel) 812

1412 815 el-Musta‘īn (caliph) „ Birket-er-Raṭly 814

1412 815 el-Mu’ayyad Sheykh M. of eḍ-Ḍiwa (Citadel) 815

Mosque of el-Bāsiṭy 817

„ el-Ḥanafy 817

„ ez-Zāhid 818

*Māristān of el-Mu’ayyad 818

*Mosque of el-Mu’ayyad 819-23

*Coll. of ‘Abd-el-Ghany 821

Mosque of el-Fakhry 821

*Coll. of Ḳāḍy ‘Abd-el-Bāsiṭ 823

1421 824 el-Muẓaffar Aḥmad b. Sheykh

1421 824 eẓ-Ẓāhir Ṭaṭar

1421 824 eṣ-Ṣāliḥ Moḥammad b. Ṭaṭar

1422 825 el-Ashraf Bars-Bey *College of Bars-Bey 827

*Mosque of Gāny-Bek 830

*College of Feyrūz 830

*Conv. and tomb of Bars-Bey 835

1438 842 el-‘Azīz Yūsuf b. Bars-Bey

1438 842 eẓ-Ẓāhir Gaḳmaḳ *College of Taghry-Berdy 844

*Mosque of Ḳāny-Bey 845

1453 857 el-Manṣūr ‘Othmān b. Gaḳmaḳ *M. and tomb Ḳāḍy Yaḥyā 848-50

*Mosque of Gaḳmaḳ 853

1453 857 el-Ashraf Īnāl *Coll., Conv., tomb of Īnāl 855-60

1461 865 el-Mu’ayyad Aḥmad b. Īnāl

1461 865 eẓ-Ẓāhir Khūshḳadam *Tomb of Gāny-Bek 869

*Mosque of Nūr-ed-dīn 870

*Mosque of Sūdūn c. 870

*College of Ḳānim c. 870

1467 872 eẓ-Ẓāhir Yel-Bey

1467 872 eẓ-Ẓāhir Timurbughā

1468 873 el-Ashraf Ḳā’it-Bey *Mosque of Timrāz 876

*M. of Ezbek b. Tutush 880

*Palace of Yeshbek 880

*Ḳā’it-Bey’s Coll. and tomb 879

„ *Coll. in town 880

„ *Wekāla by Azhar 882

„ *Sebīl 884

„ Wekāla, B. en-Naṣr 885

„ *Wek., Surūgīya c. 885

„ *Faḍawīya cupola c. 886

„ *Palace and mekān 890

„ *Restor. of S. gates 890

„ *Coll. at er-Rōḍa 896

*Mosque of Gānim 883

*Coll. of Abū-Bekr b. Muzhir 885

*Mosque of Ḳagmās 886

*Coll. of Ezbek el-Yūsufy 900

1496 901 en-Nāṣir Moḥammad b. Ḳā’it-Bey *Palace of Mamāy (Beyt-el-Ḳāḍy) 901

1498 904 eẓ-Ẓāhir Ḳānṣūh *Tomb of Ḳānṣūh 904

1500 905 el-Ashraf Gānbalāt

1501 906 el-‘Ādil Ṭūmān-Bey

1501 906 el-Ashraf Ḳānṣūh el-Ghūry *Tomb el-‘Ādil Ṭūmān-Bey 906

*Mosque of Kheyr-Bek 908

*Coll. Ḳāny-Bek emīr akhōr 908

*Coll. of el-Ghūry 909

†Tomb-mosque of el-Ghūry 909

*Tomb of Sūdūn c. 910

*College of Ḳāny-Bek Ḳarā 911

Restoration of aqueduct to Citadel 911

1516 922 el-Ashraf Ṭumān-Bey

1517 922 ‘OTHMĀNLY CONQUEST OF EGYPT

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