ABSTRACT
In the framework of his biography devoted to the Sultan Baybars, Ibn Shaddad al-Halabi has a sizeable section describing the many achievements of this remarkable personality. In one sub-section, called “[The Chapter] on what [Baybars] – may Allāh have mercy upon him – renewed in [or by] Holy Jerusalem,” 1 the author describes the following project:
He built (bana) over the grave of Moses (Musa) – may Allah have mercy upon him – [near] the “red hill” (al-kathib al-ahmar) 2 south of Jericho, a dome and mosque. He created an endowment (waqf) for it, for expenditures on its muezzin, prayer leader (imam), those who lived in its immediate vicinity and those who came to visit it. 3
