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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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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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