{
 "id": "building/masjid-ibn-tulun",
 "class": "building",
 "slug": "masjid-ibn-tulun",
 "label": {
  "ar": "جامع ابن طولون",
  "en": "Mosque of Ibn Tulun"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "أقدم جامع قائم بكامله في القاهرة (879) — حلزونية الملوية الشهيرة والطراز العباسي السامرائي.",
  "en": "Cairo's oldest intact mosque (879) — the famous spiral minaret in Samarran Abbasid style."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "objects"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "egypt-nile"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/abbasid-early"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "architecture"
 ],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 8790.00041068605,
  "latest": 8799.999247075542
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "879",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year"
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "kind": "mosque",
  "built": {
   "edtf": "879",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year"
  },
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q915413"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/khitat-maqrizi-1998",
   "source/wikidata"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "al-Maqrizi, al-Mawa'iz wa-l-i'tibar (al-Khitat), Madbouli 1998, scan pp. 279, 881, 882",
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), showcase-prose lane",
   "model": "claude-haiku-5-5",
   "run": "showcase-prose-phase2-egypt-batch6"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "published",
   "completeness": 3,
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5; the site beside the upper police, the hill of Yashkur and the divan are read from al-Maqrizi's Khitat (local scan, pp. 279, 881, 882). The year 879 is Wikidata only: the Khitat passages read here give no founding year, so the date is not confirmed locally"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "بناه أحمد بن طولون في العسكر، إلى جانب الشرطة العليا. {cite:khitat-maqrizi-1998 p.881}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الموقع والعمارة",
     "markdown": "بنى أحمد بن طولون جامعه على جبل يشكر، فعمّر ما هنالك عمارة عظيمة. {cite:khitat-maqrizi-1998 p.882}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الديوان",
     "markdown": "صار العسكر منزلاً لأمراء مصر، فنُقل الديوان إلى جامع أحمد بن طولون، ثم نُقل أيام العزيز بالله نزار إلى دار الوزير يعقوب بن كلس. {cite:khitat-maqrizi-1998 p.279}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/masjid-ibn-tulun",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-24"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Ahmad ibn Tulun built the mosque in al-Askar, beside the upper police headquarters (al-Shurta al-Ulya) {cite:khitat-maqrizi-1998 p.881}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Site and building",
     "markdown": "He built his mosque on the hill of Yashkur, and there he carried out a great building programme {cite:khitat-maqrizi-1998 p.882}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The divan",
     "markdown": "When al-Askar became the residence of Egypt's emirs, the divan (the government office) moved to Ibn Tulun's mosque. Under al-Aziz billah it moved again, to the house of the vizier Ya'qub ibn Killis {cite:khitat-maqrizi-1998 p.279}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/masjid-ibn-tulun",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-24"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "احمد بن طولون نے اسے عسکر میں، شرطۂ علیا کے پہلو میں بنایا۔ {cite:khitat-maqrizi-1998 p.881}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "محلِ وقوع اور تعمیر",
     "markdown": "احمد بن طولون نے اپنی مسجد جبلِ یشکر پر بنائی، اور وہاں بڑی عمارت کھڑی کی۔ {cite:khitat-maqrizi-1998 p.882}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "دیوان",
     "markdown": "جب عسکر مصر کے امیروں کی رہائش گاہ بنا تو دیوان جامع ابن طولون منتقل ہوا، اور عزیز باللہ کے زمانے میں وزیر یعقوب بن کلس کے گھر منتقل ہوا۔ {cite:khitat-maqrizi-1998 p.279}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/masjid-ibn-tulun",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-24"
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-24",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "building/abu-dulaf-mosque-samarra",
  "building/adana-great-mosque",
  "building/ahi-celebi-mosque",
  "building/al-aqmar-mosque",
  "building/al-attarine-madrasa",
  "building/al-jami-al-kabir-samarra",
  "building/al-janad-mosque",
  "building/al-mansur-mosque-marrakesh"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}