Sultan al-Ghuri Complex

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Sultan Qansuh al-Ghuri, who died fighting the Ottomans at Marj Dabiq in 1516, built this complex in 1503–1504 on both sides of the street where al-Ghuriyya meets Al-Muizz. On one side the mosque-madrasa is raised above a row of shops, with a four-iwan court, marble panelling and a square chequered minaret that was the first in Cairo crowned with four pinnacles. Opposite stand a domed mausoleum in which the sultan was never buried, a Sufi khanqah with a gilded wooden ceiling, and a sabil-kuttab.