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
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dwarfed by the Great Umayyad Mosque, which we shall leave to the end. The rulers of Damascus were no less libéral founders of religions édifices than were other Sultans and governors ; and the De-scription enumerates no fewer than 241 mosques for public worship, afterwards supplemented by lists which bring the number up to 572, though this figure includes some that were outside the walls. The same work gives eleven other lists of buildings in which provision was made for religions service, un-less (which is unlikely) the médical schools were an exception. In the time of the traveller Ibn Ju-bair—i.e. the late twelfth century—there were be-sides thèse two hospitals, the old and the new, of which the latter was probably the institution founded by Nur al-din, to which référence has al-ready been made; it had an endowment of fifteen dinars daily. Doctors visited it every morning to prescribe for the patients, of whom lists were kept.There was spécial treatment for the insane, who were (382)
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ÏOMB OF SHEIK ARSLAN, DAMASCUS. THE FRAISES OF DAMASCUS chained. The médical schools of the Description are ail of a later period than the hospitals. The fîrst was called the Dakhwariyyah in the old Ba-zaar of the Goldsmiths south of the Great Mosque,founded in the year 1250 by a physician, who, for his successful treatment of maladies sufïered by the Ayyubid princes, was given the title Chief of the Physicians of the Two Zones (Syria and Egypt).It appears that a successful médical career was a road to fortune in those days as in thèse ; this person received as fées for spécial cures the sums of 7000 and 12,000 dinars, and al-Ashraf settled on him es-tâtes which brought in 1500 dinars annually, when he gave him the post of court-physician. The build-ing left by him to the city as médical school had been his own house. Two other houses were devoted to the same object within the next sixty years, but one of thèse was afterwards turned into a mosque,whereas the other went to ruin. The tr

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