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Saʿīd al-Suʿadāʾ
(771 words)
, the name of a
k̲h̲ānḳāh or establishment for Ṣūfīs at Cairo founded during the Ayyūbid period in a former Fāṭimid house within al-Ḳāhira, now in the modern D̲j̲amāliyya street (
Index des monuments historiques , no. 480). In Fāṭimid times it was a dwelling facing the
Dār al-wizāra , at that period the ministry of justice. Some famous persons dwelt there, such as the vizier Ṭalariʾiʿ b. Ruzzīk [
q.v.], who had a tunnel dug to connect it with the
Dār al-wizāra. It was at this point that it acquired its name of Saʿrd al-Suʿadāʾ “the Supremely-happy one”, from the name of the person thus styled, the
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