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Ribat al-Mansuri (الرباط المنصوري) was a hospice founded in Jerusalem by Al-Mansur Qalawun in 681AH/1282CE.

History
According to an inscription, still in situ inside, above the entrance door:

"In the name of God the Compassionate, the Merciful. Praise be to God whose bounty has encompassed everything, and God bless our Lord, Muhammad, and his family. There ordered the construction of this blessed hospice and gave it in trust to benefit the poor and pilgrims to Jerusalem our Lord the Sultan al-Malik al-Mansur Abu'l-Ma'ali Sayf al-Dunya wa'l-Din Qalawun al Salihi (may God perpetuate his reign and accept [this work] from him) in the year 681."

A sijill (royal order) from 941/1535 lists the properties whose revenues were to be devolved to the Ribat al-Mansuri:
 * 1. an olive plantation at Gaza
 * 2. one third of the village of Tayyibat al-Ism
 * 3. about one eighth of Jalama; (see Al-Jalama)
 * 4. one third of Dayr 'Isfir
 * 5. one third of Maghara
 * 6. one third of  Ra's
 * 7. one half of Acre
 * 8. Muharraqa (Gaza district)
 * 9. a fraction over half of the Abu Mughir(a) mazra ‘a (Jerusalem district)
 * 10.-19. various properties in Jerusalem
 * 20. an unspecified share in the village of Kafar Sur (Nablus district), and
 * 21. a third of certain taxes on cattle, on water buffalo (‘adad), and the tax called al-himaya.

External link

 * Al-Ribat Al-Mansuri
 * Ribat of al-Mansur Qalawun
 * Ribât d’al-Mansûr Qalâ’ûn/al-Mansûrî (681/1282)
 * Ribat al Mansouri, video, in Arabic

[Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1282]
 * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Rabat_al-Mansouri