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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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sha the wholebuilding with the exception of the wall containingthe Kiblah was in ruins. During his government itwas restored, and various repairs hâve at différenttimes been executed by order of the Committee. Aninscription in the sanctuary records some restorationsdonc by order of Ibrahim Pasha, son of MohammedAli, and some are recorded as having been executedunder a yet earlier Ibrahim Pasha, who governedEgypt as viceroy for the Turks at the end of the six-teenth century. The partial destruction of the mosque must hâvetaken place after 1826, when a plan was made—pub-lished in Costes Illustrations of Cairene Architect-ture—which represents ail four cloisters as com-plète. The work done under Ibrahim and IsmailPashas must hâve been inadéquate, since the plan of1890 shows only the sanctuary, or southeast, liwan asstanding, with the rest in ruins. The work done bythe Committee in 1890 and later consisted in restoringthe sanctuary and rendering it fît for public worship, (188)
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THE DOME OF EL MOAIYAD FKOM BAB ZUWEYLEH, DAMASCUS. THE EARLY CIRCASSIAN MAMELUKES repaîring the great perron by whîch the mosque îsentered, and completing the minarets. Two years before the érection of this wonderfulédifice a school was built in the ancient région Be-tween the Two Walls, sometimes called the FakhriSchool after its founder Fakhr al-din, Vizier of theSultan Muayyad, but better known as the GirlsSchool. Its founder had an unenviable réputation : He combined the tyranny of the Armenians withthe cunning of the Christians, the devilry of the Coptsand the injustice of the tax-gatherers, being by originan Armenian, and trained among the other threeclasses mentioned. He at one time had to flee tothe Kan of Baghdad, but found means to regain thefavour of the Egyptian Sultan, who had in him aconvenient instrument for the extortion of moneyfrom his subjects. In 1852 it was restored by a wifeof Mohammed Ali, but has since undergone furtheraltérations. To a compétent rule

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