Muhājirīn, to the west of Šarkasīyya: the double mausoleum (al-ʿĀdilīyya outside-the walls). Two symmetrical rooms: a prayer room and a mausoleum, joined by a vestibule with a monumental entry.
This is one of the first examples of a type of building much in favor during the 14th and 15h centuries. It has two symmetrical rooms: a prayer-room and a mausoleum, each covered with a dome and separated by a vestibule with a monumental doorway. The funerary mosque and the double mausoleum of this Mamlūk period tend to supplant the ancient cruciform funerary madrasa with a domed mausoleum in one of the angles. We have here the tomb of a high Mamlūk dignitary, a Mongolian prisoner whom the Mamlūks had accepted into their ranks and who had held the dignity of sultan in Cairo for nearly two years.
Jacques Ghislain de Maussion de Favières. Damascus, Baghdad: Capitals and lands of the caliphs. Translation to English by Edward J. Banks. Librairie orientale (Dar el-Mashreq), Beirut, Lebanon. 1972.
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