Barqūq (784/1382-801/1399)

Here is a list of objects and monuments displaying the emblem of sultan Barqūq.

It seems that 59 glass lamps made for sultan Barqūq survive: 25 are in the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo, 22 are in the mosque of Imam Husain (also in Cairo) and 12 are dispersed in museum collections outside Egypt. (Information published by Alaa El-Din Mahmoud in 2016 on the basis of a master’s thesis by Mayisa Mahmud Dawud, Cairo University, 1971)


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