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Mankubars al-Falaqi

منكوبرس الفلكي

c. 1234 CE · 631 AH

Damascus

Amir Rukn al-Din Mankubars al-Falaqi (d. 631) — mamluk of al-Adil's brother Fakhr al-Din; a devout man devoted to the Umayyad mosque, whose endowments raised a madrasa and tomb at Qasyun and a great Shafi'i madrasa inside Damascus 1.

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Commander
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abagha Khan · Abdallah al-Irmawi · Abu al-Abbas al-Azafi · Abu al-Abbas al-Qurti · Abu al-Hajjaj al-Biyasi

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Damascus

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Summary

Amir Rukn al-Din Mankubars, mamluk of Falak al-Din, brother of al-'Adil; religious, righteous and chaste, constant at the Umayyad mosque; he has a madrasa and turbah at Qasyun on which he endowed much, and inside Damascus a great Shafi'i madrasa and the village of Jarud endowed for them; he died at Jarud and was carried to burial in his turbah at Qasyun. 1

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Died in
Damascus

People and things also explored

the Cave of Qasyun (Jibril's Cave)· Qasr Hiraql / Qasr Shams al-Muluk· The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus· The Fitna of the Hafiz Abd al-Ghani in Damascus in 595· al-Afdal besieges Damascus and turns back· al-Adil's seizure of Damascus· al-Ghazali's arrival in Damascus as an ascetic, in 488· al-Ashraf takes Damascus

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 147
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the Cave of Qasyun (Jibril's Cave)

The mosque raised inside the cave of Mount Qasyun by Abu al-Faraj Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn al-Mu'allim beginning in 370, after a dream in which Jibril bade him build a mosque where God's name would be remembered — he called it Jibril's Cave; a broad prayer-hall floored in white marble, its columns all marble, never empty of the pious at remembrance.