Civilized Revival for Cairo’s hammams - Mamluk Era (648-923 Hijri / 1250-1517) A Study in Historical Geography

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1 kafrelsheikh

2 woman - ain shams

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The hammamat in Cairo were centered in two areas: the first was the north and the east of the city where the Qassaba area, which was the commercial artery of the city, was located, and the second was the outskirts of the citadel where the military headquarters. The number of markets were also increasing, such as the arms market and Rumaila market, on the contrary the western and southern areas are almost deprived of hammamat, due to the extremity of these areas from the heart of the city.
A map was created for the extant and scattered Mameluke hammamat, and the number of hammamat that were counted from various sources were (42), the number of remaining ones were (5), while the number of extant and destroyed baths were (32) hammamat, and there were remaining hammamat from the Mameluke era, however, it has not been proven in the records of the Ministry of Antiquities like the Shikhu bath.
The Mamluk remaining hammamat in Cairo ( InaL, AlSharaiby, Almoayyed, Bashtak, and Shikhu) need to be revived and repaired to be put in the map of Egyptian antiquities, as these hammamat are closed in 2022 (except Inal hammam).

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