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الثلاثاء، 27 سبتمبر 2011

Observance of Ramadan in the days of Mamluk Egypt

By celebrating the month of Ramadan and the new moon is sighted in the Mamluk era, was the Chief Judge come out to see the crescent with four judges and witnesses, along with candles and lanterns, they share with accountant and senior traders of Cairo and heads of communities, industries and crafts. They were watching Crescent Lighthouse School Mansour Qalawun school Mansourieh "Palace Walk" because it is located before the court fitness "School of Salih Najm al-Din Balsagh" If verified to see him lit the lights on the shops and minarets lit mosques, and then pay the judge of judges in the motorcade lined with crowds of people carrying torches and lanterns and candles, even up to his house, and then dispersed communities to neighborhoods announcing fast

 He described the traveler, "Ibn Battuta" in 727 e celebration to see the new moon of Ramadan in the city "Abyaar" near Mahalla al-Kubra, said: "The habit on the knee to meet the scholars of the city and faces after 'House of the judge, standing at the door of house captain Almtamaman which has a badge - the good - if came a jurists or objects received by the Captain and walked in his hands, saying "the name of God our Lord so and so religion" and heap Captain in the position it deserves, if Tkamiloa all, led by the judge, and followed them from the city of men and boys, even if they had been finished to a position high outside the city - a prospective Crescent them - has brushes position Balbst, mattresses, descend to the judge and his Ertqubon Crescent and back to the city after the Maghrib prayer and in their hands candles and torches and lanterns, so that is evidence of proven vision Faoukd traders candles Bhawwanathm abound lights in the streets and mosques

The celebration of the night to see the moon in in 920 e reign of Sultan al-Ashraf Qansuh Ghouri - attended the four judges school Mansourieh, and attended Zini Barakat ibn Musa injury, and when proven sighting of the moon and the council adjourned rode accountant and walked in front of him Alsagan close and lit candles on the shops and suspended stoves and lamps along the way to the "House Zini Barakat" ..
 
At the beginning of the month sit-Sultan in the field of the castle and make him the Caliph and the four judges congratulations, and then review the quantities of flour, bread and sugar, as well as sheep and cows allocated to the charity of Ramadan offered by the injury after it has reviewed around Cairo led by music, Vinam the accountant and the senior statesmen

Mamluk Sultans were interested in the expansion of philanthropy throughout the holy month .. (Muslim) ruler plum "784 e -801 e" used throughout the days of his being slaughtered every day of Ramadan, twenty-five cows in charity Belhomha, in addition to bread and food to the people of mosques, links, and prisons; so that for each individual pound meat, cooked and three loaves of bread, and walked on the year of the came after the sultans used to say of the slaughter of cows and the distribution of the meat, also arranged sultans Sultan Baybars five thousand each day of the month of Ramadan ..
 
Also used the Mamluk sultans freeing thirtieth the neck of the number of days the holy month, in addition to all types of expansion for scientists, where the disposal of their salaries more in the month of Ramadan, especially distracted from sugar has reached the amount of sugar in the era of Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad Bin Qlaon year 745 AH - three thousand quintals worth thirty thousand dinars, of which sixtieth quintals per day of Ramadan

.The Sultan King widow of Sultan Hussein Kamel was out in a procession for the distribution of gold coins to children, and was wearing a dress long, and the child to accept the tail of her dress, and here the Sultan donated each child a small pouch of silk holds ten riyals gold, was real in the size of Alumblym.
 
The most famous of those who have Baltsheir Vchks called "Son of a point," a special Almshrati Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad, was "Son of a point," Sheikh Almshratih range of his day and the owner of the art of "Alqoma", one of the forms of hymns and litanies

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