Cairo, Jerusalem, and Damascus- (1912) (14783070935)

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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had pre-pared for it. The uncertainty which attached to the post of Sul-tan apparently had at this time the rather remark-able efïect of making the rival usurpers more lenientand forgiving towards each other. Barkuk, whencaught by his enemy Yelbogha, had been honour-ably treated, and though condign punishment hadbeen threatened to anyone who harboured him, theperson found guilty of this act was, in fact, praisedand rewarded. When Barkuk in his turn got Yel-bogha in his power, the restored Sultan gave him anhonourable place in the court at which he had for atime been virtually suprême. To the time of Barkuk belongs the Khan Khalîlî,now a famous and familiar place of merchandise.Its site is that part of the ancient Fatimide Palacewhere the Caliphs used to be buried. Chaharkas,master of the stable to Barkuk, becoming possessedof the site, had the remains of the Fatimide Caliphsexhumed, and carried on asses backs to the Barkiy-yah Gâte, where they were flung on dunghills, this (176)
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^^v AN OLD HOUSE NEAR THE ÏENTMAKERS BAZAAK. CAIRO. THE EARLY CIRCASSIAN MAMELUKES being his mode of showing his contempt for deadheretics: an act of fanaticism for which, if Makrizimay be believed, he was afterwards punished by be-ing allowed to remain naked and unburied outsidethe walls of Damascus. When Barkuk died in 1398, according to the cus-tom that had so often proved disastrous, his son,Faraj, a lad aged thirteen, was appointed his succes-sor under the guardianship of two Emirs. In thethree years that followed the Egyptian dominions inAsia were in conséquence swallowed up partly by theOttoman Sultan, and partly by the terrible Timur,whose demand for homage was granted in 1402 bythe Egyptian government, when the princes who hadsought refuge from the world-conqueror in Egyptwere also delivered up. The death of Timur in thebeginning of 1405 restored Egyptian authority inSyria, which, however, became a rendezvous for ailwho were discontented with the rule of Faraj and hisEmirs,