Ruler
ʿAbd al-Rahman Katkhuda
Grandee and builder in Ottoman Cairo
c. 1714 – 1776
His birth year is approximate.
Biography
One of the great grandees of eighteenth-century Cairo. He paid for building and restoring dozens of mosques, fountains and schools, and developed a style mixing Mamluk and Ottoman forms, best seen in his sabil-kuttab at Bayn al-Qasrayn.
Key facts
Certainty: Established
ʿAbd al-Rahman Katkhuda built a fountain topped by a Qurʾan school on al-Muʿizz Street in 1744.
- Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, Egypt “Sabil-Kuttab of Abd al-Rahman Katkhuda — Egyptian Monuments” egymonuments.gov.eg
- André Raymond (2000) “Cairo” Harvard University Press