Cairo, Jerusalem, and Damascus: . rwards built. The région became popularand fashionable for this purpose. The fact of vari-ons saints being buried there was probably what sug-gested to Barkuk to hâve his mausoleum in the sameplace. He died without having commenced to buildît; his son set about the filial duty at once, and it tooktwelve years to complète. Another monument of the Sultan Faraj is a school,called by the modest name Zawiyah (literally Cell,) a little to the south of the Bab is usually known as the Zawiyat al-Duheshah, thelatter word signifying Hall or Court. Over it ar
Cairo, Jerusalem, and Damascus: . rwards built. The région became popularand fashionable for this purpose. The fact of vari-ons saints being buried there was probably what sug-gested to Barkuk to hâve his mausoleum in the sameplace. He died without having commenced to buildît; his son set about the filial duty at once, and it tooktwelve years to complète. Another monument of the Sultan Faraj is a school,called by the modest name Zawiyah (literally Cell,) a little to the south of the Bab is usually known as the Zawiyat al-Duheshah, thelatter word signifying Hall or Court. Over it arerooms the rental of which was settled on the school or mosque itself has a kiblah of colouredmarble. Close by it is a fountain with a maktab, orschool for the young above it, also the foundation ofthe same Sultan. The causes of the fréquent change of rulers fromthe time of Barkuk to the end of the Circassiandynasty are not always intelligible; in the case ofFaraj they appear to hâve been notorious incompe- [182]. ?m THE EARLY CIRCASSIAN MAMELUKES tence displayed at a perîod when the Moslem worldwas conf ronted in the person of Timur with an enemywho threatened to exterminate it. His career wasclosed by a gênerai revolt of the Syrian Emirs, whodefeated him at the battle of Lajun in May, 1412. Adocument was drawn up by the judges at the com-mand of the victors declaring Faraj a murderer anddébauchée who was unfit to reign; and that theremight be no jealousy between the two Emirs whowere chiefly responsible for his downfail, they agreedto install as Sultan the Caliph Mustain while the twoEmirs were to hâve separate sphères of than a century and a half, then, since the ter-mination of Abbasid rule in Baghdad, a descendant,or at least a professed descendant of the impérialfamily was given something more than a nominalposition at the head of the chief Moslem state. Hedid not apparently much believe in his good fortune;and before investiture as
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