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Kilaniyya Turba (Arabic: الكيلانية) is a Mamluk mausoleum and madrasa in Jerusalem.
Location edit
It is located on north side of Tariq Bab al-Silsila, immediately to the west of the Al-Taziyya, and opposite the Khalidi Library.[1]
History edit
According to Mujir al-Din,
The Kilaniyya Mausoleum is situated next to the Taziyya on the west side. It is named after the Hajj Jamal al-Din Pahlavan, son of the Amir Shams al-DIn Quradshah (sic) b. Shams al-Din Muhammad al-Kilani al-Lahiji, known as the son of the Lord of Kilan. In his will he instructed his son, the Amir Nizam al-Din Kehshirwan to realise a hundred thousand dirhams from the third of his property and to hand that sum to his nephew, that is, the testator’s nephew, the Amir Ala ’al-Din‘Ali b. Baha’al-Din Salar b. Shir Malik al-Kilani, to buy a plot and build a mausoleum in Jerusalem, if it proved possible to transport his body and bury it there. The date of the will was 10 Sha'ban in the year 753 [21 September 1352], This mausoleum was built, which contains his grave. His body was brought there, as he had willed.[2][1]
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Bibliography edit
- Berchem, van, M. (1922). MIFAO 43 Matériaux pour un Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Part 2 Syrie du Sud T.1 Jérusalem "Ville" (in French and Arabic). Cairo: Impr. de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale. (pp. 125−129)
- Burgoyne, Michael Hamilton (1987). Mamluk Jerusalem. ISBN 090503533X. (pp. 325-336)
- Harvey, William (1912). "Jerusalem drawings". Architectural Review. 22: 201–206.
- Moudjir ed-dyn (1876). Sauvaire (ed.). Histoire de Jérusalem et d'Hébron depuis Abraham jusqu'à la fin du XVe siècle de J.-C. : fragments de la Chronique de Moudjir-ed-dyn.
- Titus Tobler Denkblätter aus Jerusalem, pl. II, reproduces a fine engraving of the Kilaniyya Turba drawn by G.Borstell. (according to Burgoyne: cannot find it!)