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, Unlike Zayla?, al-Jabart is not recorded as a place name in the Mu?jam al-buld?n of Y?qut al-R?m?, 1179.

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. Al-sakh?w?, On some occasions, al-Sakh?w? mentions the "students among the people of al-Azhar" (al-?alaba min al-Azhariyy?n) or the "greatest among the people of al-Azhar" (qudam?' al-Azhariyy?n), 1:377, 11:197. See also al-?ayraf? (1416-1495), Inb?' al-ha?r bi-anb?' al-?a?r, vol.12, 2002.

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. Maqr?z?, See also Gaston Wiet, Matériaux pour un Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum, part. I, Egypte, t. 2, fasc. 2 (Cairo, Egypt: IFAO, 1929), Mémoires de l'Institut Français d, Archéologie Orientale, vol.52, pp.115-133

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, The following data are the result of a digital analysis of al-Sakh?w?'s ?aw' al-l?mi?. I warmly thank René-Vincent du Grandlaunay (IDEO, Cairo) for his invaluable help in this matter

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?. Sakh?w?,

?. Sakh?w?,

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, Shan?w? gives credit to Sultan al-Ashraf Q?ytb?y (r. 1468-1496) for refurbishing the Riw?q al-Magh?riba (the living-quarter of the Maghrebians) and for establishing the Riw?q al-Shaw?m (Syrian students) and the Riw?q al-Atr?k

. Shan?w?, But the inscription quoted by Shan?w? in relation with the Riw?q al-Magh?riba does not mention the name nor the nature of the place refurbished. Moreover, the closest witness of Q?ytb?y's restoration works in al-Azhar, the Cairene chronicler Ibn Iy?s, pp.1448-1524

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, In the following lines, the identification of the Zay?li?a and Jabartiyya in fourteenth-century Cairo is based on a provisional survey and ongoing research, and does not claim to be exhaustive. The database of the ERC project HornEast will provide a more comprehensive list in the near future

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. Wiet, Thesaurus d'épigraphie islamique, n. 21402, www.epigrahie-islamique.org. I warmly thank Robin Seignobos (IFAO) for pointing out this reference. In addition to the script, which suggests the Ottoman era, its narrative and descriptive phrasing is inconsistent with a fourteenth-century epitaph. The mention of Zayla? as a "village from the district of Abyssinia" (wa Zayla? qarya bi-n??iyat al-?abasha) suggests that at the time of its drafting the nisba al-Zayla?? was no longer familiar in Egypt, Matériaux pour un Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum, pp.69-70

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, An epitaph bearing the name of one Mu?ammad b. ?Abd al-Ra?m?n b. al-Jabart?, found in Mecca in the graveyard of al-Mu?all?, has been roughly dated, according to its script and style, from the third century AH/tenth century CE: N??ir b. ?Al? al-?arith?, A?j?r sh?hidiyya ghayr mansh?ra min mat?af al-?th?r wa ltur?th bi-Makka al-mukarrama, pp.122-145, 2007.

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, See the comprehensive study of Y?q?t al-?abash?'s life and hagiography by Giuseppe Cecere in this issue

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T. Garcin, Copper dirhams (dirh?m min ful?s) were the Egyptian currency since the beginning of the fifteenth century. These alms of 5,000 copper dirhams to the residents of the riw?q for the festivities of the month of Rama??n should be compared to the monthly salary (150 copper dirhams) of the muezzins of Jawhar's madrasa on the same date, a parttime job often held concurrently, or to the monthly spidends of the orphans (480 copper dirhams). Garcin and Taher, Un ensemble de waqfs du IX e /XV e siècle, p.284

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, The last date mentioned in ?Al? al-Jabart?'s biography by al-Sakh?w? is 878 AH/1473-74 CE