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the Windows being of bronzework with stained glass lights, and the balustrade atthe top of the dôme has in front of it forty stainedglass Windows. Round each of the four dômes men-tioned above there are ten Windows with balustrade.The purpose of thèse balustrades is to support lamps.In the semicircle of the Mihrab there are sixteenWindows, with a gallery containing a balustrade infront, and round the wall low down there are thirty-six Windows each two-and-a-half mètres long, withwhite glass lights, each one containing a portion ofthe poem called Burdah. Access is given to thegalleries from the two minarets and the roof of theMosque. The southern door of the dôme, whichfaces the northern, has written on the outside ^ Godsare the places of worship, and invoke no one withGod. In front is a vast gallery, on eleven columnsof alabaster, some eight mètres high. Twenty-twoiron bars connect thèse pillars, which are surmountedby eleven dômes, similar to those in the gallery facing (284)
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SOUK SELAL, THE AKMOUKEKS BAZAAR. CAIRO. THE KHEDIVIA POLDERI the first door. The tomb of the founder, which heordered to be hewn for himself in the solid rock, isin the southwest corner to the right as one enters f romthe door leading from the court into the dôme. Thecompletion of the Mosque in this style was in theyear 1261 (1845). The founder died three yearslater, and was followed by Ibrahim his son, who diedshortly after. He was succeeded by Abbas Pasha,son of Tusun, who ordered the Mosque to be fînished.They whitewashed the piers, and then painted themto look like marble, paved the floor, and painted andinscribed the dômes. One other monument in Cairo which préserves thename of Mohammed Ali, the Boulevard called afterhim, belongs to the reign of Ismail Pasha, who gov-erned Egypt from 1863 to 1882. Its site was a sériesof graveyards, which continued in use till Mo-hammed Alis time. The bones were coUected whenthe Boulevard was eut, and distributed in variousplaces ; over the

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ed in much later times for theexcavation of the Suez Canal. This Canal startedfrom the Nile in the Kasr ai-Ain région, and after along course mainly northward, discharged into theGreat Canal near the Mosque of Baibars. Its pur-pose was, it is said, to convey goods to the buildingserected near the new exercise-ground laid out by theSultan at Siriacos; but it was also used for pleasureparties and processions, and many mansions werebuilt along its banks. Probably more buildings remain from the time ofthis Sultan than from any of his predecessors. Suchare the mosques of the Emir Husain in a street lead-ing out of the Mohammed Ali Boulevard in the di-rection of the Bab al-Khalk: of the Emir al-MalikJaukandar in the Husainiyyah quarter: of the EmirAimas in the Place Hilmiyyah: of the Emir Kausun(most of it destroyed when the Mohammed AliBoulevard was constructed) ; of the Emir Beshtak inthe Jamamiz Street, entirely renewed in the year1860 by the brother of the Khédive Ismail: of the (148)
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NASIR AND HIS SONS Emîr al-Maridani near the Mihmandar Mosque, înthe Tabbanah quarter, leading from the ZuwailahGâte to the Citadel, which also dates from a lateperiod of Nasirs reign: and of the Lady Maskahnear the Mosque of the Sheik Salih to the south ofthe Mabduli Street. The lady who founded thislast mosque was a slave of the Sultan, who rose tothe office of manageress of such matters as were en-trusted to the women of the palace, such as the éti-quette of weddings, the éducation of the royal chil-dren and the organisation of various cérémonies.The foundress records in the dedicatory inscriptionthat she had visited both Meccah and Medinah. AUthe Emirs mentioned in this list were persons ofmark in Nasirs reign. The Emir Husain was alsothe builder of a bridge and a wicket called after hisname, to enable people to come from Cairo to hismosque. The Emir Sanjar, who was governor atthe time, objected to a hole being made by a pri-vate individual in the city wall. When the EmirHu

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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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usness of the région the gâte wasused for a variety of purposes which demanded pub-licity, notably the exécution of criminals. Proces-sions regularly had their route between the Futuhand Zuwailah Gates. Eighty years later the great Saladin fînding thewall of Jauhar in ruins resolved to repair it. Hisidea was to build a single wall, which, starting fromthe Nile, should enclose both Postât and Cairo andreturn to the Nile. The commencement of the wall,as planned by the great Sultan, was from Maks orMaksim (a name derived probably from a Romannamed Maximus), the port of Cairo on the Nile,where Hakim built a Mosque, called afterwards theMosque of the Gâte of the Nile, or of the Sons ofAnan. Pro:a, thispoiilt the new wall went directlyto the Great Canal. West of the Canal it was piercedby the Bab Shariyyah, still marked on the plans,named, it is said, after a Berber tribe encamped inthe neighbourhood. Traces of the wall of Saladinhâve been discovered by Casanova at various other (34)
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THE FATIMIDE PERIOD points. From the northeast corner of the old walIthe northern wall was continued for some hundredsof mètres, as far as a point called Burj Zafar (Towerof Victory), a name apparently chosen to accordwith those of the gâtes already piercing the northwall; the extended line after a space went back torésume the line of the older wall, slightly north ofthe Bab al-Barkiyyah. That gâte was, however,shifted to the east, as was also the case with the gâtecalled Bab Mahruk, while two new gâtes were con-structed called the New Gâte and the Viziers Gâte.The Southern wall, running from the Citadel to theNile, so as to enclose the Mosque of Amr, had fourgâtes, called respectively after the Cemetery, Safa,Old Cairo and the Bridge. Of the gâtes that hâve been mentioned, three, Zu-wailah (now usually called Mutwalli), Futuh,and Nasr are fairly well preserved; the remainderno longer exist, but their names are preserved in theplans, and streets or spaces are called after t

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Him. And peace be on themessengers and praise unto God the Lord of theworlds. O God, he gracions unto Mohammed, andMohammeds family, and bless Mohammed and hisfamily even according to the best of Thy favour andgrâce and blessing upon Abraham and his family.Verily Thou art glorious and to be praised. Of the history of the Mosque after Ahmads timesome notices are preserved. His suburb Katai,which contained not only his Mosque but also hisvast palace and parade ground, was burned in 905;and as the surrounding locality became more andmore deserted, the Mosque itself sufïered fromneglect. The second of the Fatimide Caliphs is saidto hâve replaced the fountain, which, as we hâveseen, was burned soon after its érection; but thedésolation of the région reached its climax duringthe long reign of the Fatimide Mustansir, and theMosque came to be used as a resting-place for Moor-ish caravans on their way to Mecca, who stabled theircamels in the cloisters. Its use as a hostel was coun- (20)
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^^^ IN A CAIRENE STREET. CAIRO BEFORE THE FATIMIDES tenanced by the Egyptian rulers of the twelfth cen-tury, who even provided food for those who made îttheir resting-place; such persons were also declaredfree from the ordinary tribunals, and told to appointa judge of their own to settle any quarrels that mightarise. Systematîc restoratîon was efïected by the Mame-luke Sultan Lajin, who, after murdering his masterin the year 1294, ^^^^ refuge in the then desolateMosque, and there vowed that, if he escaped his pur-suers and eventually came to power, he would restoreit. Two years later, being raised to the throne ofEgypt, he was in a position to fulfîl his promise; towhich pious object he devoted a sum of about tenthousand pounds. He rebuilt the fountain in thecentre of the court, turning it into a lavatory for thecérémonial ablution, and his building still remains;he provided a handsome mimbar or pulpit, of whichsome panels hâve found their way into the SouthKensington Muséum;

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by the Caliph provokedsuch resentment in the mind of the Ikhshid that hebethought him of abandoning the Prophets succes-sor on the Tigris, and bestowing his homage on thepretender who was founding an empire in WesternIslam. The Ikhshidi dynasty was of even shorter durationthan that of Ahmad Ibn Tulun, and left in Egypteven less to perpetuate its name. Its founder wascharged by his contemporaries with avarice andcowardice, neither of them a quality which helps tosecure immortality. The System of slave rule, which, as has been seen,gave Egypt its best days, was anticipated in the inter-val between the death of the Ikhshid and the acces-sion of the Fatimides. Of two negroes brought fromthe Sudan to the Egyptian market one aspired to em-ployment in a cook shop, that he might never wantfood; the other aspired to become ruler of the coun-try, and each obtained his wish. Purchased for asmall sum, and passing through the lowest stages ofmisery and dégradation, the latter rose finally by (26)
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CAIRO BEFORE THE FATIMIDES force of character to be the Ikhshids fîrst ministerand gênerai of his forces ; and on his masters deathhe contrived to keep the heirs in a state of tutelageto himself, and afterwards to seat himself on theirthrone; displaying throughout capacity for the man-agement of great afïairs. Kafur, Camphor,whose name of itself indicated the servile conditionof its owner, was not only master of Egypt, Syriaand Arabia, but in one respect was the most fortunateof ail Oriental sovereigns. He obtained as his en-comiast the most famous of Arabie poets, known asal-Mutanabbi the Prophetaster, at a time whenthe poets powers were at their ripest; and althoughin conséquence of a dispute thèse brilliant panegyricswere speedily followed by no less brilliant and scath-ing satires, the portrait of Kafur that results is morecomplète and more familiar than that provided bythe paid eulogiser of any other Sultan. It might be difficult to point out in Cairo any relieof the Ikhshi

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