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Al-Manjakiyya (المنجكية)  was a madrasa in Jerusalem.

Location
It is located just north of the Iron Gate.

Founder
Al-Manjakiyya was build by Sayf al-Din Manjak, also called Manjak al-Yusufi, a Mamluk who died in 1375.

In 1344 he was Silihdar, Arm-Bearer, bringing the head of the deposed An-Nasir Ahmad, Sultan of Egypt from Al-Karak to Cairo.

In 1347, his brother Baybugha became vice roy of Egypt in under An-Nasir Hasan. An-Nasir Hasan tried to assert his leadership versus his mamluks in 1350, and arrested both Manjak al-Yusufi and his brother Baybugha. However, An-Nasir Hasan was overthrown in 1351, and replaced with his half brother As-Salih Salih, whose chief Mamluk Taz an-Nasiri released  both  brothers. Taz and Manjak then started constructing the Amir Taz Palace in Cairo, with Manjak initially in charge. It was completed in Jumada II 754/July 1353

The brothers Baybugha and  Manjak al-Yusufi  conspired against As-Salih Salih, this was discovered and as a result  Baybugha  was executed  (in 1353) and Manjak al-Yusufi thrown in jail. In the spring of 1354 he was released through the influence of Shaykhu, and sent to Safad.

An-Nasir Hasan regained power in 1355, and reigned until he was killed by his Mamluk Yalbugha al-Umari in 1361, who installed the young boy Al-Mansur Muhammad as Sultan. Manjak conspired with Baydamur, then governor of Damascus, against Yalbugha al-Umari. Both were jailed in August 1361, and Manjak was only freed when Yalbugha al-Umari was killed in 1366.

Fatima, a daughter of Sayf al-Din Manjak, married  Sultan Barquq in 786/1384.


 * Al-Mansur Muhammad, Sultan of Egypt (sultan 1361 – 1363) (died 1398)
 * Al-Ashraf Sha'ban (sultan 1363–1377)

History
According to Mujir al-Din; "He [i.e. Manjak] was ordered to reside in Jerusalem as tarkhan. He came to the city in Safar 761 [December 1359- January 1360]. In a certain history [it is written that] ‘He came to Jerusalem to build the madrasa for the Sultan al-Malik al-Nasir Hasan’. It was his intention to build it for him, but when the Sultan was killed in the year 762 [1361], he built it for himself and it took his name. He endowed the madrasa and provided it with students of law (fuqaha) and other personnel."

There are two defters giving two different foundation dates for the waqf for Al-Manjakiyya: One gives 770/1368-69, the other 773/1371-72. But both broadly agree about what income was included in the waqf:
 * The "New Baths" at Safad,
 * Three shops, known as Wakala, in Jerusalem
 * 1/12 (or 1 share) of the hall of Haraflsh Hill in Jerusalem,
 * rent from the land called Charity Land, in West Jerusalem
 * "6 shares and a third and an eighth of a share" of Beit Safafa
 * "A parcel of land known as Manjak’s Land and Charity Land" in Jerusalem District.

Modern period
In 1914 Max van Berchem visited, and then Al-Manjakiyya was used as a boys school. It was later used as a private residence, until 1342/1923 when it was converted for use for the Awqaf. It remains is use as offices for the Awqaf.

Endowments
See Sha'ab  Hawadi  in Gaza Sanjak,

External link

 * Madarasa al-Manjakiyya, archnet
 * Madarasa al-Manjakiyya Restoration, archnet
 * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Al-Manjakiyya