'Ala ad-Din al-Basir

thumb | right | alt=ʿAlāʼ ad-Dīn al-Baṣīr's grave | ʿAlāʼ ad-Dīn al-Baṣīr's grave ʿAlā ad-Dīn al-Baṣīr (see names below, died 1294) was a mamluk who became an emir. He was a supervisor of Jerusalem's waqf charitable endowments (ar nāẓir al-awqāf)Ibn Taghrībirdī Abū al-Maḥāsin Yūsuf Wiet Gaston Les biographies du Manhal safi 1932 Imprimerie de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale 85 https://books.google.com/books?id=MkcJAQAAIAAJ&q=rukni+nazir fr ‘Alā’ ad-dīn Aidugdī, Ruknī, †693/1294. Nāẓir al-awḳāf, à Jérusalem and inspector of the Two Noble Sanctuaries (ar nāẓir al-Ḥaramayn ash-Sharīfayn) of Jerusalem and Hebron. He lived during the final years of the Ayyūbid dynasty (under aṣ-Ṣāliḥ) and the beginning of the Mamlūk dynasty (under Baybars and Qalāwūn). Names ʿAlā ad-Dīn al-Baṣīr (ar علاء الدين البصير): ar al-Baṣīr is a nickname that means "astute, insightful" (ar بصير). The nickname also becomes ar al-Baṣīrī (ar البصيري) and ar al-Būṣayrī/ar al-Būṣairī (ar البوصيري) in placenames. ʿAlā ad-Dīn Aydughdī ibn ʿAbdallāh aṣ-Ṣaliḥī an-Najmī (ar علاء الدين ايدغدى بن عبد الله الصالحي النجمي): ar aṣ-Ṣaliḥī an-Najmī is a nisba (noun + ar -ī), meaning he was a mamluk of aṣ-Ṣāliḥ Najm ad-Dīn, an Ayyūbid emir.Sharon Moshe Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae 5 2013 Brill 978-90-04-25481-7 188 https://books.google.com/books?id=X1uNAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA188 The great ʿAlā ad-Dīn the blind is Aydughdī b. ʿAbdallah aṣ-Ṣaliḥī an-Najmī (the Mamlūk of aṣ-Ṣāliḥ Najm ad-Dīn Ayyūb MS) ... during the reign of aẓ-Ẓāhir Baybars and al-Manṣūr Qalāwūn ... He built the lockable installation (al-maghlaq) in the town of our master al-Khalīl ʿAlā ad-Dīn Aydughdī ar-Ruknī (ar علاء الدين ايدغدى الركنى): ar ar-Ruknī may refer to Baybars (ar Rukn ad-Dīn), a Mamlūk sultan whom he served.Matériaux pour un Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum. 2e partie. Syrie du Sud. Tome 1er. Jérusalem "Ville" https://archive.org/details/MIFAO43/page/n150/mode/1up?view=theater&q=basir M. Berchem, van Max van Berchem 1922 Impr. de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale Cairo Fr [p.198–199] inspectuer des fondations de Jérusalem (nāẓiru auqāfi l-qudsi) p.198 "quant à Rukni, il se rapporte peut-être à Baibars, qui était surnommé Rukn al-dīn." He is not to be confused with ʿAlā ad-Dīn Aydughdī ibn ʿAbdallāh al-Kubakī (al-Kabakī), buried in the Kubakiyya mausoleum in the Mamilla Cemetery. Legacy He was responsible for a number of building projects in Jerusalem. Some places in the city bear his name. Aladdin Ribat (ʿAlā ad-Dīn al-Baṣīr Ribat) / al-Baṣīrī Mosque,Mosques in Jerusalem https://madainproject.com/mosques_in_jerusalem Madain Project The Aladdin Al-Busairi Mosque (مسجد علاء الدين البصيري) [...] nine meters long and eight meters wide [...] next to it is the shrine of Aladdin Al-Busairi [...] in this Ribat, and it was restored it in 1971 after it was previously used as a prison.مسجد علاء الدين البصيري https://qudsinfo.com/photos/#/image/29315 Qudsinfo ar a ribat outside the Inspector's Gate. During its construction, he used his cane as a yardstick and found a measurement mistake that sighted people overlooked.Rabbat Nasser Mamluk History through Architecture: Monuments, Culture and Politics in Medieval Egypt and Syria 2010 Bloomsbury 978-1-78673-386-3 140 https://books.google.com/books?id=cbqKDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA40 Using his cane as a yardstick, he even discovered a mistake in the measurement of a hall in his ribat [...] that went unnoticed by his clear-sighted muhandisin [architects/surveyors ar مهندس] and their assistants. It includes his tomb/shrine and homes to a community of Afro-Palestinians.Teller Matthew The Dom and the African Palestinians Jerusalem Quarterly Institute for Palestine Studies 2022 89 94–95 https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1652786 Inspector's Gate (ʿAlā ad-Dīn al-Baṣīr Gate) was named after the ribat. Aladdin Street: named after the ribat.Teller Matthew Nine Quarters of Jerusalem 2022 Profile Books 978-1-78283-904-0 143 https://books.google.com/books?id=SgQ3EAAAQBAJ&pg=PT143 Tariq Ala ad-Din (Aladdin Street) – named not for the man but for his tomb al-Būṣayrī Sabil (al-Baṣīr Sabil), a sebil (fountain) named after him.BAR International Series 1978 British Archaeological Reports 978-0-86054-820-1 90 https://books.google.com/books?id=sRxmAAAAMAAJ&q=Sabil+Ibrahim+al-Rumi Sabīl Baṣīrī [...] is named after [...] ʿAlā ad-Dīn al-Baṣīr, but the present structure was erected at the expense of a pious Muslim pilgrim, Ibrahīm al-Rumī, in 1435 Ablution Gate and the Ablution Place west (outside) of the gate: restored by him.Siqayat al-Malik al-ʿAdil Abu Bakr / Cistern http://i2ud.org/j/html3/monuments/sites/t073_siqayat Institute for International Urban Development 2022-07-03 2022-06-02 https://web.archive.org/web/20220602125452/http://i2ud.org/j/html3/monuments/sites/t073_siqayat/ dead Map http://i2ud.org/j/html3/monuments/sites/t151_madras_t_i/images/p_uthman.jpg Institute for International Urban Development 2022-07-03 2022-06-16 https://web.archive.org/web/20220616065434/http://i2ud.org/j/html3/monuments/sites/t151_madras_t_i/images/p_uthman.jpg dead . A map of ʿUthmāniyya Madrasa, with the ablution place to its west.Hawari Mahmoud Ayyubid Jerusalem (1187-1250) 2007 Archaeopress 978-1-4073-0042-9 https://books.google.com/books?id=lidmAAAAMAAJ&q=superintendent [The Ablution Gate] was ruined and was rebuilt by ʿAlā ad-Dīn al-Baṣīr, when he restored the Ablutions Place [...] al-Baṣīr served as the nāzir al-Ḥaramayn (the superintendent of the Two Ḥarams of Jerusalem and Hebron) during the reign of al-Ẓāhr Baybars. He also built structures in Hebron: A bathhouse: He drew up its plan while he was blind. A storage installation (ar maghāliq) for wheat and barley. References Category:Year of birth unknown Category:1294 deaths Category:Slaves in the Ayyubid Sultanate Category:13th-century people from the Mamluk Sultanate Category:Mamluk emirs Category:Blind royalty and nobility Category:Slaves in the Mamluk Sultanate