Only in recent years have scholars managed to trace their origins - to Cairo, under the reign of the Mamluk Sultan Qaitbay (1468–1496), a great patron of the arts. “When carpet studies began ...

View of the Mosque of Amir al-Maridani, dating from 1340 CE from the era of the Mamluk Sultanate of Cairo, as Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities is to inaugurate the second phase of the ...

In the center is the 500-year-old domed tomb of a Mamluk sultan, Qansouh ... way for a new highway through the Northern Cemetery in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, July 29, 2020. In the center is ...

Like many foreigners, I had avoided this vast necropolis during my visits to Cairo, choosing instead ... the religious funerary complex built by the Mamluk Sultan Faraj in the early 1400s.

A tour of Islamic Cairo isn't complete without a visit to ... The 14th century mosque, commissioned by the Mamluk Sultan Hasan Ibn Al-Nasir Muhammad Ibn Qalawun, is known for its grand courtyard.

The ceremonial helmet of Sultan al-Ashraf Kansu al-Ghuri, the last sultan of the Mamluk Sultanate, is now on display at the Diyarbakır Museum. Diyarbakır held a strategic position during the ...

Al-Maridani, chief of police and married to a daughter of the powerful Mamluk sultan al-Nasir Mohamed, built the mosque in 1338-40 A.D. on al-Darb al-Ahmar street, a thoroughfare connecting Cairo ...