The minaret, located some fifty meters to the northwest of the Tomb-Khanaqah of Amir Qawsun al-Nasiri, is all that remains of what may have been a friday mosque built by the same patron in the 1339/739 AH. In early photographs taken in the nineteenth century, it consisted of three tiers. The lowest tier is octagonal with decorative niches surmounted by a muqarnas cornice, and rises from a rectilinear base.
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Meinecke, Michael. Die Mamlukische Architektur in Ägypten und Syrien, vol. 2, cat. 9C/375. Glückstadt: Verlag J. J. Augustin, 1992.
Williams, Caroline. Islamic Monuments of Cairo: The Practical Guide, 115. Cairo: AUC Press, 2002.