Panel

dated 1296

Not on view

Before becoming sultan in 1296, the Mamluk Husam al-Din Lajin spent a year in hiding at the dilapidated Ibn Tulun Mosque in Cairo. He vowed to renovate the mosque someday, and an enormous minbar was the result. It was dismantled in the late 19th 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.

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Title: Panel
Date: dated 1296
Geography: Made in Egypt, Cairo
Medium: Wood; carved and inlaid
Dimensions: H. 7 3/4 (19.7 cm)
W. 3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm)
D. 3/8 in. (1 cm)
Classification: Wood
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1907
Object Number: 07.236.43
Curatorial Department: Islamic Art

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