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Before becoming sultan, Husam al‑Din Lajin spent a year in hiding at the dilapidated Ibn Tulun Mosque. He vowed to renovate the mosque someday, and an enormous minbar was the result, dismantled in the late nineteenth century and dispersed in several museum collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art. A copy based on a traveler’s drawing now stands in the mosque in Cairo.
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