The H̱ātūn, mother of the sultan al-Malik al-Muʿaẓẓam, wife of al-ʿĀdil, died 20 Rabīʿ I 602 (1), and was buried in her qubbā in al-Madrasā al-Muʿaẓẓamīyyā on the slope of Qāsīūn (ibn Kaṯīr).
In 606, al-malik al-Muġīṯ Fatḥ ad-DIn ʿUmar, son of al-ʿĀdil, was buried in the turbā of his brother al-Muʿaẓẓam.
Madrasā al-Muʿaẓẓamīyyā, Ḥanafite, at aṣ-Ṣāliḥīyyā, on the slope of Qāsīūn, in the neighborhood of al-ʿAzīzīyyā (2), founded by al-malik al-Muʿaẓẓam ʿīsā son ofʿal-ʿĀdil, who was a strict Ḥanafite; he died in 624, the tenth year of his reign at Damascus, and was buried, first, against the provisions of his will, in the Citadel, then transferred to the slope of Qāsīūn, and buried beside his mother, 1 Muharram 627 (3). Ibn H̱allikān says, “in his madrasā in which were the tombs of many of his brothers and relatives.”
The inscription on the left window of the façade is written by a wife of al-Muʿaẓẓam, in 631. ِAl-Malik al-Ǧawād Yūnis in 637, al-malik an-Nāṣir Dāwūd, who died of the plague in 656, and other descendants down to the beginning of the eighth century, were all buried in this madrasā. Before his sultanate, al-Muʿaẓẓam had been governor of Damascus for al-ʿĀdil, 597— 615. Seemingly, his mother, who died in 602, was the actual founder of the turbā, which became a family mausoleum.
The building, which was not accessible, seems to be an agglomeration around a first structure. The street front is preserved up to the crenelations.
1. November 4, 1205.
2. Of al-ʿAzīz ʿUṯmān son of al-ʿĀdil, brother of al-Muʿaẓẓam (ibn Kaṯīr).
3. November 20, 1229 (Sauvaire 279-281).
Ernst Herzfeld. Damascus, Studies in Architecture III. Ars Islamica XI-XII 1946 (p. 1-71).
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