The story of Cairo . were graduallyreduced to the state of suffering insignificance fromwhich they are only now being to some extent churches were being thus destroyed mosqueswere rising with amazing prodigality. There neverwas such a harvest for the builder and the architect asin the reign of en-Nasir. The sultan set the examplehimself. He was a man of fine taste and high, culture,the patron of scholars, and the intimate friend of thelearned historian Abu-1-Fida, whom he restored to theprincedom of Hamah, which had been held by hisfamily since the day? ^f his ancestor, Saladins
The story of Cairo . were graduallyreduced to the state of suffering insignificance fromwhich they are only now being to some extent churches were being thus destroyed mosqueswere rising with amazing prodigality. There neverwas such a harvest for the builder and the architect asin the reign of en-Nasir. The sultan set the examplehimself. He was a man of fine taste and high, culture,the patron of scholars, and the intimate friend of thelearned historian Abu-1-Fida, whom he restored to theprincedom of Hamah, which had been held by hisfamily since the day? ^f his ancestor, Saladins was an age of brilant artistic production, and theimmense sums spent oy the sultan and his emirs onbuilding and decorative works show that the wealth ofthe country was vast, and was nobly expended. Someof Nasirs own furniture has been preserved—there aretwo exquisite inlaid-siiver tables of his in the ArabMuseum at Cairo—and his two chief buildings, thecollege in Beyn-el-Kasreyn (1304), next to the220.
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