Cairo, Jerusalem, and Damascus- (1912) (14596395809)

Identifier: cairojerusalemda01marg (find matches)
Title: Cairo, Jerusalem, and Damascus:
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Margoliouth, David Samuel, 1858-1940. (from old catalog) Tyrwhitt, Walter Spencer-Stanhope, 1859-1932, (from old catalog) illus
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Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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days.Great damage was done in Alexandria, where the re-turning wave, which is a phenomenon often accom-panying great earthquakes, inundated a considérableportion of the city. On Thursday, the 23d of themonth Dhu 1-Hijjah, says Makrizi, at the momentof morning prayer, the whole land shook; the wallswere heard to crack, and terrible sounds proceededfrom the roofs. Pedestrians were compelled to benddown, men on horseback fell off their mounts. Thepeople imagined that the sky was coming down. AUthe inhabitants, men and women, rushed out into thestreets. The terror and haste was such that thewomen did not wait to veil their faces. Houses tum-bled down, walls split, the minarets of the mosquesand the schools were overthrown, many childrenwere prematurely born. Violent winds arose, theNile overflowed, and tossed such boats as hap-pened to be on the bank to the distance of a bowshot.Presently the water withdrew, and left thèse vesselswith broken anchors high and dry. The inhabitants, (140)
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GATEWAY OF THE MOSQUE OF IBRAHIM AGHA. CAIRO. NASIR AND HIS SONS driven by fright out of their houses, took no thoughtof what they had left inside. They were entered byrobbers, who seized whatever they chose. The own-ers passed the night in tents, which were set up fromBoulak to Raudah. Only Thursday night was spentin the mosques and chapels by crowds imploring themercy of God. Of édifices that were damaged by the earthquake—^which left fallen bricks or other traces of itself inthe doorway of every house—Makrizi enumeratesthe mosque of Amr, the mosque al-Azhar, the mosqueof Salih situated outside the Bab Zuwailah, theschool of Kalaun, which lost its minaret, and themosque of al-Fakihani, which underwent the samedisaster. Forty curtains and twenty-seven towers be-longing to the wall of Cairo fell. Cairo and Fostatwere left in such a condition that anyone who sawthem might hâve supposed that they had been sackedby an enemy. To the second reign of the Sultan Nasir belongsthe Mosque