It was stripped of its polished outer stones a few centuries ago, to be used in a rebuilding of medieval Cairo.

The funerary complex has a remarkable layout as a double architectural composition, with two blocks straddling the main street in the heart of medieval Cairo.

Bayt al-Razzaz is an abandoned 178-room urban palace in the Darb al-Ahmar neighborhood of medieval Cairo.

The Sharia al-Mu'izz was the High Street of medieval Cairo.

Ruins, which had once sheltered all the intricate legal debates of medieval Cairo, loomed over their game.

Malagan ware was also exported to the Islamic world, and has been found at Fustat (medieval Cairo) and elsewhere.

Today it is mostly destroyed; its temples and other buildings were used for the construction of medieval Cairo.

Blocks from this temple were later used to build the city walls of medieval Cairo and can be seen in some of the city gates.

Maqrizi mentions that the construction of the mosque cost 30,000 dirham every day, making it the most expensive mosque in medieval Cairo.

Along this unassuming thoroughfare, the principal street of medieval Cairo, lies one of the greatest concentrations of early Islamic architecture in the world.