Ribat al-Mansuri (Arabic: الرباط المنصوري) was a hospice founded in Jerusalem by Al-Mansur Qalawun in 681AH/1282CE.[1][2]
History
editAccording to an inscription, still in situ inside, above the entrance door:
In the name of God the Compassionate, the Merciful. Praise be to God whose bounty has encompassed everything, and God bless our Lord, Muhammad, and his family. There ordered the construction of this blessed hospice and gave it in trust to benefit the poor and pilgrims to Jerusalem our Lord the Sultan al-Malik al-Mansur Abu'l-Ma'ali Sayf al-Dunya wa'l-Din Qalawun al Salihi (may God perpetuate his reign and accept [this work] from him) in the year 681.[1][3]
A sijill (royal order) from 941/1535 lists the properties whose revenues were to be devolved to the Ribat al-Mansuri:
- 1. an olive plantation at Gaza
- 2. one third of the village of Tayyibat al-Ism
- 3. about one eighth of Jalama; (see Al-Jalama)
- 4. one third of Dayr 'Isfir[4]
- 5. one third of Maghara[5]
- 6. one third of Ra's
- 7. one half of Acre
- 8. Muharraqa (Gaza district)
- 9. a fraction over half of the Abu Mughir(a) mazra ‘a (Jerusalem district)[6][7]
- 10.-19. various properties in Jerusalem
- 20. an unspecified share in the village of Kafar Sur (Nablus district), and
- 21. a third of certain taxes on cattle, on water buffalo (‘adad), and the tax called al-himaya.[8]
References
edit- ^ a b Burgoyne, 1987, p. 129
- ^ Moudjir ed-dyn, 1876, pp. 157
- ^ van Berchem, 1922, no. 65. p. 200
- ^ Possibly Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 141
- ^ Possibly Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 129
- ^ probably Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 116
- ^ Toledano, 1984, p. 287, has Abu Maqira at location 35°15′05″E 31°44′55″N.
- ^ Burgoyne, 1987, pp. 130−131
Bibliography
edit- 'Adawi, Zubair (19 June 2014). "Jerusalem, al-Rabat al-Mansouri". Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel. 126. Israel Antiquities Authority.
- Al-Ju'beh, Nazmi; Hawari, M.; Natsheh, Yusuf (2013). Pilgrimage, Sciences and Sufism: Islamic Art in the West Bank and Gaza. Museum With No Frontiers, MWNF. ISBN 3902782110. (pp. 104–105)
- van Berchem, 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.
- Burgoyne, Michael Hamilton (1987). Mamluk Jerusalem. ISBN 090503533X.
- Clermont-Ganneau, C.S. (1899). [ARP] Archaeological Researches in Palestine 1873-1874, translated from the French by J. McFarlane. Vol. Volume 1. London: Palestine Exploration Fund.
{{cite book}}:|volume=has extra text (help) (127ff) - D'Amato, C. [in Italian]; Catania, Domenico (2009). The Typologic Analysis of Mamluk Public Building in Al-Quds/Jerusalem: The Ribat and the Madrasa A Work in Progress. Istanbul. ISBN 978-92-9063-190-3.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) (pp. 129−140) - ed-dyn, Moudjir (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. (Moudjir ed-dyn, 1876, pp. 223, 241, 242)
- Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter; Abdulfattah, Kamal (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-920405-41-2.
- Jaussen, J.A. [in French] (1925). "Inscriptions arabes de la ville d'Hébron [avec 7 planches]". BIFAO. 25: 1–45. (pp. 25-26)
- Toledano, E. (1984). "The Sanjaq of Jerusalem in the Sixteenth Century: Aspects of Topography and Population". Archivum Ottomanicum. 9: 279–319.
External link
edit- Al-Ribat Al-Mansuri
- Ribat of al-Mansur Qalawun
- Ribât d’al-Mansûr Qalâ’ûn/al-Mansûrî (681/1282)
- Ribat al Mansouri, video, in Arabic
[Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1282]