The Dome of al-Sayyida Zaynab bint al-Ḥanafiyah at the Necropolis of Bāb al-Naṣr in Cairo The problem of function and dating | ||||
| International Academic Journal Faculty of Tourism and Hotel Management | ||||
| Article 9, Volume 5, Issue 1, 2019, Page 192-222 PDF (1.74 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ijaf.2019.95477 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| Walid Salah al-Din* | ||||
| Tourism Guiding Department, Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| In the outskirts of Bāb al-Naṣr, a brick dome is located in the southeastern edge of the cemetery dedicated to Sayyida Zaynab bint al-Ḥanafiyah. The cemetery of Bāb al-Naṣr can be seen north to Bāb al-Naṣr and contains lots of tombs and graves for different characters such as historians such as the famous al-Maqrīzī, the Imām ‘Abd al-Raḥman ibn Ḫaldūn, the Imām Burhān al-Dīn ibn Zuqqā‛ah in addition to the theologians, and Āl al-Bayt or the prophet’s Muhammad family. The dome is attached to some remains of the tombs of the Sufis from its western side. The mausoleum is wrongly thought by the neighboring people to be of the famous Zaynab, the daughter of Imām | ||||
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