_The Dome Builders_ 193-254

Saphadin el-‘Adil, 193—Great Famine, 194—Invasion of Crusaders, 195—Frederick II and Kamil, 196—The Mamluk System, 197—Queen Sheger-ed-durr and the Bahry Mamluks, 198—Crusade of Louis IX, 201—(i) The Turkish Mamluks, 202—Their Wars against Mongols, 203, and Franks, 205—Revival of ‘Abbasid Caliphate, 206—Beybars, 206—The Mamluk Court, 209—Turbulence of Emirs, 210—The House of Kalaun, 211—En-Nasir, 212—Toleration of Christians, 216—Popular Fanaticism, 217—Incendiaries, 218—Nasir and Abu-l-Fida, 220—Artistic Production, 220—Mosques, 223—Emirs’ Mosques, 224—Early Mamluk Style of Architecture, 227—Sultan Hasan, 228—His Great Mosque, 231—(ii) The Circassian Mamluks, 235—Corruption, 236—Wars, 237—Cultivated Tastes, 238—Architecture, 238—Kait-Bey, 241—His Buildings, 245—Mosque _intra muros_, 246—Wekala, 249—Mosques of Emirs and of Kady Ibn-Muzhir, 250—The Modified Medresa, 250—Buildings of el-Ghury, 253—Ottoman Conquest, 254.