Ǧāmiʿ al-ʾAḥmar

 

The "Red Mosque" is located in the Jewish quarter, in the southern part of the city of Damascus, inside the walls, between Bāb aš-Šāġūr and Bāb Kaysān (1).

The following mentions in ibn Šaddād may refer to this mosque:

"A large masǧid in Darb al-Bayāʿā (2), of old, a Jewish synagogue, then a masǧid, known as Masǧid aš-Šahrazūrī, because he used to sit there to preach."

"A masǧid in the Darb Kulaylā in the Jewish quarter, at the south end of Darb al-Bayāʿā, which used to be known as Kulayl al-Qāḍī (3)"

The qāḍī was apparently so well known that ibn Šaddād did not think it necessary to provide his name. Thus, there are two possibilities: either the person in question is Taqīī adl-Dīn ʿUṯmān ibn aṣ-Ṣalāḥ aš-Šahrazūrī, already mentioned under Ǧāmiʿ at-Tawbā, or the famous qāḍī of Nūr ad-Dīn, Kamāl ad-dīn ʾabū al-Faḍl Muḥammad aš-Šahrazūrī.

1.  Wulzinger & Watzinger. Damaskus, die Islamische Stadt. Walter de Gruyter 1924 (p 90). 
2. Darb al-Balāġā according to ibn ʿAsākir (p. 64).
3. Kulayl al-Fāmi according to ibn ʿAsākir. 

Ernst Herzfeld. Damascus, Studies in Architecture IV. Ars Islamica XIII-XIV 1948 (p. 118-138).