2-701-164 - Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images

Cairo: Funerary or Sepuchral Mosque of Sultan Barquoq seated Imam reading the Koran, before a pierced screen c14th; from L'Art Arabe d'apres les Mounments de Kaire; pub. 1877 (print). Émile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-1879) was a French archeologist, Egyptologist, architect and writer of the nineteenth century; Sultan Barquoq (c.1363-1399) was the first Sultan of the Mamluk Burji dynasty that ruled Egypt from 1382 to 1517.