By Nile and Tigris : a narrative of Journeys in Egypt and Mesopotamia on behalf of the British Museum between the years 1886 and 1913 . 870 = 1465. (13) Gama ash-Shekh, , the Mosque of Shekh Abdal-Kadar of Ghilan, the patron saint of Baghdad, who isinvoked at all times. He died about 650 = , aged 91 years, but the fine dome above his tombwas not built until 840 = 1436. ^ I have adopted Felix Joness spelling and dates. ^ The minaret of this mosque is the oldest and highest in Baghdad ;of the original building of which it formed the most important partvery Ut
By Nile and Tigris : a narrative of Journeys in Egypt and Mesopotamia on behalf of the British Museum between the years 1886 and 1913 . 870 = 1465. (13) Gama ash-Shekh, , the Mosque of Shekh Abdal-Kadar of Ghilan, the patron saint of Baghdad, who isinvoked at all times. He died about 650 = , aged 91 years, but the fine dome above his tombwas not built until 840 = 1436. ^ I have adopted Felix Joness spelling and dates. ^ The minaret of this mosque is the oldest and highest in Baghdad ;of the original building of which it formed the most important partvery Uttle remains. For a transcript of the inscriptions see Niebuhr,Reisebeschreibung, vol. ii, p. 296, note 2. This is a very fine building, and well worth a close examination. This mosque is a very popular place of pilgrimage, and is avery handsome building. It lies some distance from the river, andan aqueduct has been made by the pious to provide pilgrims withwater. Niebuhr says [op. cit., ii, p. 297) that it possessed large revenuesout of which board and lodging were provided for needy pilgrims andothers. i To face p. 19^, vol. Mosques in Western Baghdad. 195 The most important mosques in the western part ofthe city are :— (i) The Takiyah Bab al-Kazam, or House of theBaktash Dervishes. This is the famous Hospice of theCalendars of Baghdad, of which so many mentions aremade in the Thousand Nights and a Night {, the Arabian Nights ). The Calendars used to shave theirheads and eyebrows, but they do so no longer, andaccording to Wellsted {Travels, i, 261), they went aboutin his time like the other Dervishes. The Takiyah wasa sort of Hospice in which poor travellers, or pilgrims whowere specially recommended, received board, lodgingand attendance gratis (see Niebuhr, Reiseheschrei-bung, ii, p. 297). The fine inscription which I saw thereis dated 333 = 944. (2) The Tomb of Shekh Maruf, built 612 = 1215. Shekh Maruf was the son of Al-Firuzan,and a contempora
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