Panel from Sultan Lajin's Minbar at the Mosque of Ibn Tulun, Cairo

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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 19th century and dispersed in several museum collections. A copy based on a traveler's drawing now stands in the mosque.

Panel from Sultan Lajin's Minbar at the Mosque of Ibn Tulun, Cairo, Wood; carved and inlaid with wood

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Panel from Sultan Lajin's Minbar at the Mosque of Ibn Tulun, Cairo, Wood; carved and inlaid with wood
Panel from Sultan Lajin's Minbar at the Mosque of Ibn Tulun, Cairo, Wood; carved and inlaid with wood
Panel from Sultan Lajin's Minbar at the Mosque of Ibn Tulun, Cairo, Wood; carved and inlaid with wood

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