Cairo, Jerusalem, and Damascus- (1912) (14760068716)

Identifier: cairojerusalemda01marg (find matches)
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
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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n example foUowed bybis Emirs: fresh discontent led to bis being deposedby tbe Syrian governors, wben bis brotber Hajji wasproclaimed Sultan in bis place. Hajji was deposedand killed December 10, 1347, and anotber son,Hasan, wbo took bis fathers title, proclaimed.Hasans rule was slightly less ephemeral than that ofbis predecessors, for he remained in power tillAugust 21, 1351, and thougb then deposed, he re-ceived a fresh lease of sovereignty three years after-wards, wbich he retained for six years and a half,wben he was finally displaced. During tbis reign Egypt was visited by the blackdeath, wbich is said to bave carried ofï 900,000 ofthe inhabitants of Cairo, and to bave raged as far asAssouan. The resuit was to reduce Cairo to the pro-portions wbich it had attained before the time of tbeSultan Nasir. The plague was followed by afamine, due to the wholesale destruction of tbe agri-cultural population, and of their beasts, for thèsewere attacked by a simultaneous épidémie. (156)
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/ Â ^ NASIR AND HIS SONS Some of the Cairene monuments date beforeHasans resumption of the sovereignty. One of thèseis the mausoleum of the Sultan Kuchuk, who wasdethroned in 1342, and strangled three years later.It forms part of the Mosque of Ibrahim Agha, ofwhich the présent volume contains several illustra-tions. Ibrahim Agha was not the founder of themosque, but its restorer: its founder was the EmirAk Sonkor, of whom three inscriptions remain. Themosque is noteworthy for the tiles which cover thewalls in parts to a height of four mètres. The Emirwho built it was a celebrity of the reign of Nasir,during which he was governor of a number of Syriancities: fînally he was made viceroy in Egypt itself.The last scène in which he figures is one in which heplays rather a courageous part; when the sixth ofNasirs successors came to the throne and desired tohâve him arrested, he drew his sword and tried toattack the Sultans person; he was, however, in timeovercome and strangled the fo