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pointed men of native Moslem descent to the variouspost and dignities usually appropriated by the Turcoman Emirs. He alsodetested the Copts and had sworn to exterminate them However, he alloweda Coptic architect to build his great mosque and one pillar of it, on the RAMBLES IN CAIRO 49 western side… … Phot. CresiveU, Mosque of Sultan HassanCarved pillar on west side of Porch. cut off, so that he should never create another masterpiece to rival it,but this is evidently not true for the mosque was not completed until twoyears after Hassans death. 50 RAMBLES IN CAIRO Perhaps no monument of Arab…
