This mausoleum has no inscriptions, and its identification rests therefore on historical texts. At-turbā al-Ḥāfiẓīyyā with the mosque it contains is located south of Kuḥayl bridge and north of the at-turbā al-Qaymarīyyā on the Shiblīyyā path to aṣ-Ṣāliḥīyyā. It was a garden belonging to Yāqūt, servant of Tāǧ ad-Dīn al-Kindī, bought by Arġūn al-Ḥāfiẓīyyā, freedwoman of al-Malik al-ʿĀdil. She was very wealthy. Her surname refers to al-Malik al-Ḥāfiẓ, lord of Qalʿat Ǧaʿbar, whom she had brought up. Malik aṣ-Ṣāliḥ Ismāʿīl hated her implacably and took away from her, among other valuables, four hundred cases with money. She died in 648 (1) and was buried in her turbā. She gave large waqfs to that turbā and to the masǧid she had founded (an-Nuʿaymī 2).
1. 1250-1251 CE.
2. Sauvaire p. 235-236.
Ernst Herzfeld. Damascus, Studies in Architecture III. Ars Islamica XI-XII 1946 (p. 1-71).
Ross Burns. Damascus, a History. Routledge 2005 (map).
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