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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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provided, and money lavished oneach. A couple of physicians with a surgeon wereappointed to treat such of the officiais or students aswere invalided; provision was made for a number oforphans to be educated and outfitted when theyreached maturity: and in the list of religious andother officiais we fînd spécialisation carried to anextent previously unknown. Thèse vast revenueshâve for the most part disappeared. In Ali Pashastime the whole institution possessed a hundred andfifty pounds a year, which was devoted to the pay-ment of salaries and partly to upkeep and repairs. Twenty-two years after the completion of themosque, which took place two years after thefounders death, his tomb was erected and inscribed;it is thought that the exact spot where he lay mayhâve been then unknown. After the second dethronement and subséquentmurder of the Sultan Hasan, a son of his dethronedbrother Hajji was proclaimed; but on May 29, 1363,this Sultan also was deposed on the ground of incom- (164)
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NASIR AND HIS SONS petence, and hîs place gîven to another grandson ofNasir, Shaban, who at the time was ten years old.His reîgn was rather longer than that of his pred-ecessors, and it was not until March 15, 1376, thathe was murdered by the Mamelukes, for refusing alargess of money which they demanded. To theright of the Street leading to the Citadel there is tobe found the Mosque of this Sultan, the foundersinscription dating from the year 1369. It containsa wonderful plénitude of titles, among which themost remarkable is that of master of the Ismailianfortresses and the Alexandrian frontiers. The con-quest of the Assassins, who played so ominous a partin Oriental politics, was an achievement of whichthe Sultan Baibars was justly proud; the remnant ofthe sect were, however, under the protection of theEgyptian Sultans, and every now and then they wererequired to supply persons ready to discharge thefunction which won them their former famé. Themention of Alexandria is due to th

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