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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parted afresh into a number of rills, while theother seryed as a drain, and went some twelve feetunderground to issue at the Little Gâte, whence itwas turned towards farms. The round tower of theCitadel, which might hâve been cast in a mould ofwax, was thought to hâve no rival in the world. Atone time—probably during the Mameluke periodonly—the Citadel possessed a great council-chamberwhose walls and ceilings were covered with the rich-est arabesques, and inscribed with texts of the Koranwritten in gold-leaf. Its foundation is ascribed toAtsiz, the contemporary of Badr al-Jamali, who fora time got possession of the chief Syrian cities; butit was rebuilt by Nur al-din, in whose time theeastern peoples had learned something about for-tresses from the Crusaders. Further improvementswere made by the Egyptian Sultan Adil, whoordered each member of his family to build a tower,and whose name remains in an inscription of thénortheast tower. The towers were stripped of their (368) T--1
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THE FRAISES OF DAMASCUS roofs and the walls of their battlements by HulagusMongols; thèse were restored by the Sultan Baibars,whose services are recorded in several inscriptions.Great damage was done when Timur-Lenk besiegedand took the city ; a trench was dug round the roundtower, and wood piled against it and fired. Theruinous condition of the whole édifice apparentlydates from the time of the disbanding of the Janis-saries, at the beginning of the nineteenth century. In Mameluke times the governors palace was with-in the Citadel, once three storeys high. The présentpalace, or Serai, is said to occupy the site of one builtby the Sultan Nur al-din, called House of Justice.The modem building dates from the time of IbrahimFasha, who efïected many changes in Damascus. Afamous palace in Damascus called the Farti-colouredCastle was the model for similar buildings else-where; it dated from the time of the Sultan Baibars,and was located in the Meidan. Below the Citadel, i.e., on the eas

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