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Kilaniyya Turba (الكيلانية) is a Mamluk mausoleum and madrasa in Jerusalem.

Location
It is located on north side of Tariq Bab al-Silsila, immediately to the west of the Al-Taziyya, and opposite the Khalidi Library.

History
According to Mujir al-Din, The Kilaniyya Mausoleum is situated next to the Taziyya on the west side. It is named after the Hajj Jamal al-Din Pahlavan, son of the Amir Shams al-DIn Quradshah (sic) b. Shams al-Din Muhammad al-Kilani al-Lahiji, known as the son of the Lord of Kilan. In his will he instructed his son, the Amir Nizam al-Din Kehshirwan to realise a hundred thousand dirhams from the third of his property and to hand that sum to his nephew, that is, the testator’s nephew, the Amir Ala ’al-Din‘Ali b. Baha’al-Din Salar b. Shir Malik al-Kilani, to buy a plot and build a mausoleum in Jerusalem, if it proved possible to transport his body and bury it there. The date of the will was 10 Sha'ban in the year 753 [21 September 1352], This mausoleum was built, which contains his grave. His body was brought there, as he had willed.