Ǧhārkās, Šarkas, Persian, means "Circassian," popularly disfigured into Saraksī or similar.
Madrasā al-Ǧhārkāsīyyā, or aš-Šarkasīyyā, for the Ḥanafite and the Šāfiʿite, was founded as a waqf by Ǧhārkās faẖr ad-Dīn aṣ-Ṣalāḥī, containing his tomb. (an-Nuʿaymī).
Ibn Ḥallikān calls him one of the great emirs of the ʿAyyūbīd period and mentions especially the great Qīsārīyyā al-Ǧhārkāsīyyā he had built in Cairo. Nuʿaymī quotes ibn Ḥallikān as the author of a passage that is not in the texts we have today: “Ǧhārkās left a young son whom al-Malik al-ʿĀdil confirmed in the offices held by his father, appointing a guardian for him; but he survived his father only a short time and died, as they say, in 607.” The date is faulty. The guardian was Ṣārim ad-Dīn H̱uṭlubā, who, according to ibn Kaṯīr, died in 635 and was buried in Qibāb Ǧhārkās, which he had built for his master, opposite at-turbā al-H̱ātūnīyyā on Qāsīyūn.
Ernst Herzfeld. Damascus, Studies in Architecture III. Ars Islamica XI-XII 1946 (p. 1-71).
Photo credit: K.A.C Creswell.
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