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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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e continued to be foUowed inthe collèges built by Egyptian Sultans, though itappears to hâve been in the first Mameluke periodthat a Sultan cynically confessed that the publicmaintenance of four Systems v^as to give the sover-eign the better chance of getting his rulings au-thorised. The practice of having the separate Sys-tems taught in annexes to the four liwans, or cloisters,gives such buildings a shape approximating to thecruciform. Architecturally, Herz Bey tells us, the Collège ofthe Sultan Salih is of interest for the development ofthe façade. In the Fatimide period the façade be-gan to be ornamented by a niche over the door, whichserved no other purpose than that of décoration. Inthe Mameluke period it develops into a séries of Win-dows. The Collège of Salih ofïers the earliestexample of the introduction of a window, wherebythe niche is given a defînite purpose. In the façadeof the mausoleum of the same sovereign the nichesextend to the fuU height of the wall. (100)
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MOSgUE OF SULTAN BIBARS. CAIRO. THE AYYUBID PERIOD The building originally consistée! of two schools,separated by a long passage to which access was givenby the gâte under the minaret; this was of iron, orna-mented with a marble slab, bearing the name Salihiy-yah. Each of the schools consisted of an open court,surrounded by four cloisters. Of the southern schoolnothing now remains except the façade. Of thenorthern there remains the western cloister and partof the wall belonging to the eastern. The old pass-age has now become a street. This school was at times used as a court of justice.We hâve a record of a scène occurring in the year1521, in the early days of Turkish rule, when on theoccasion of festivities in Cairo, owing to the victoriesof the Sultan Sulaiman, some Christians who had gotdrunk in honour thereof and indulged in unseemlylanguage were taken there to be tried. Two of thejudges decided that though they might not be exe-cuted they ought to be scourged for drunkenness

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