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Apr 18, 2024 · Qalawun Complex. Thanks to Sultan Al Nasir Muhammed Ibn Qalawun, Egypt has this exceptional structure that sturdily stands on El Moez Street. It dates back to 1280 and holds the grips of a tomb and a hospital. The building had a different name before Sultan Qalawun bought it.
Apr 28, 2024 · A view of Cairo's ancient Al-Azhar Mosque, established in the year 972 during the Fatimid Caliphate, and the Qalawun complex, built in 1285, on a November night in 2023. El Massry wanted the photo ...
Apr 18, 2024 · The Qalawun complex is another structure that exists in El Moez Street. The place has been the centre of religious ceremonies and other important Islamic rituals. The structure has undergone many restorations during the reign of Al Nasir Muhammed, the Son of Sultan Qalawun. One of the restorations took place after a strong earthquake hit Egypt.
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May 2, 2024 · Entrance to the Qalawun complex which housed the notable Mansuri hospital in Cairo. The earliest known Islamic hospital was built in 805 in Baghdad by order of Harun Al-Rashid, and the most important of Baghdad's hospitals was established in 982 by the Buyid ruler 'Adud al-Dawla.
Apr 18, 2024 · The Qalawun complex is another noticeable landmark which dates back to the Fatimid era in Al Muizz Street. The complex is actually big and includes a madrasa (school), a maristan (hospital) and a mausoleum. The complex was built by Sultan Al-Nasir Muhammad Ibn Qalawun around the year 1280. It’s worth mentioning that thirty of the mosques ...
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4 days ago · Fragment of Kufic inscription on cuerda seca tiles formerly around the minaret of the Kasbah Mosque. Jonathan Bloom cites the white and green glazed tiles on the minaret of the Kutubiyya Mosque, dating from the mid-12th century in the early Almohad period, as the earliest reliably-dated example of zellij in Morocco.
3 days ago · v. t. e. The Mamluk Sultanate ( Arabic: سلطنة المماليك, romanized : Salṭanat al-Mamālīk ), also known as Mamluk Egypt or the Mamluk Empire, was a state that ruled Egypt, the Levant and the Hejaz from the mid-13th to early 16th centuries. It was ruled by a military caste of mamluks (freed slave soldiers) headed by a sultan.