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Date of Monument: Hegira 681 / AD 1282–3. Period / Dynasty: Mamluk. Patron (s): Sultan al-Mansur al-Qalawun (r. AH 678–89 / AD 1280–90). Description: The ribat consists of three basic architectural units, the first of which is a deep, wide, rectangular entrance that has on its east and west sides a stone bench known as a mastaba.
Following the death of their patron al-Salih, his Mamluk officers seized power, perpetuating the same recruiting system under their own rule. Qalawun was the eighth Mamluk sultan, 1 and the second major sultan after al-Zahir Baybars (r. 1266-1277), who is considered to be the founder of the Mamluk state. Qalawun ruled for a decade from 1279 to ...
Qalawun was known as al-Alfi ['the Thousand-man'] because al-Malik aṣ-Ṣāliḥ bought him for a thousand dinars of gold. He barely spoke Arabic. He rose in power and influence and became an emir under sultan Baibars, whose son Barakah Khan was married to Qalawun's daughter. Baibars died in 1277 and was succeeded by Barakah.
The piers and pillars bear arches whose soffits are ornamented with stucco decoration. The piers, pillars and their arches demarcate an octagonal surface in the middle of which is the tomb of al-Mansur Qalawun and his son, al-Nasir Muhammad (who ruled three times: AH 693–4 / AD 1294–5; AH 698–708 / AD 1299–1309; AH 709–41 / AD 1309–40).
In 1284, Sultan Al Mansur Qalawun constructed the impressive complex of Sultan Qalawun along Shari’ el-Muizz Street, a well-known historical street in Cairo. Within its boundaries, the complex contains a mosque, a medersa, a mausoleum, and a mauristan. In the 1920s, a contemporary hospital took the place of the Mauristan.
Spanning the greater part of the thirteenth century, the career of the Mamluk sultan of Egypt and Syria, al-Mansur Qalawun, is of great interest for the light it sheds on the major themes of early Mamluk history: the emergence of a new political and administrative structure, characterized by increased militarization and mamlukization; the role of the caliphate and the nature of sultani ...
Qalāwūn aṣ-Ṣāliḥī; (Arabic: قلاوون الصالحي, c. 1222 – November 10, 1290) was the seventh Bahri Mamluk sultan; he ruled Egypt from 1279 to 1290.n. Qalawun was a Kipchak who became a mamluk (slave soldier) in the 1240s after being sold to a member of Sultan al-Kamil’s household. Qalawun was known as al-Alfī (“the ...
