[One Of The Finest Medreses In Mekka, Built By
Order Of Kail Beg, Sultan Of Egypt, In A.H. 888, In The Side Of The
Mosque Fronting The Street Masaa, Has Also Become A Private Building,
After Having Been Deprived Of Its Revenue By The Peculation Of Its
Guardians.
Besides the Medreses, there were other buildings of less
extent erected by different Sultans of Egypt and Constantinople for
Similar purposes, called Rebat, where poor pilgrims might reside, who
chose to study there; but these have shared the fate of the Medreses,
and are now either the private property of Mekkawys, or let to
individuals on long leases by the mosque, and used as common lodging-
houses.]
Close to Bab Ibrahim is a large Medrese, now the property of Seyd Ageyl,
one of the principal merchants of the town, whose ware-house opens into
the mosque. This person, who is aged, has the reputation
[p.155] of great sanctity; and it is said that the hand of Sherif
Ghaleb, when once in the act of collaring him, for refusing to advance
some money, was momentarily struck with palsy. He has every evening
assemblies in his house, where theological books are read, [The cousin of
this man is the famous pirate Syd Mohammed el Ageyl, who has committed
many outrages upon European ships in the Red Sea, and even insulted the
English flag. In the beginning of 1814 he was called to Djidda, with
offers to enter the service of Mohammed Aly Pasha, who, it was then
thought, had some hostile intentions against Yemen.
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