Editing Fatimid Caliphate (section)

===Burial place===
The Fatimid caliphs were buried in a mausoleum known as ''Turbat az-Za'faraan'' ("the Saffron Tomb"), located at the southern end of the eastern Fatimid palace in Cairo on the site now occupied by the [[Khan el-Khalili]] market.{{Sfn|Raymond|1993|p=57}}<ref>Lev, Y. 2001. "Aspects of the Egyptian Society in the Fatimid Period". In Vermeulen, Urbain & J. van Steenbergen (eds.). ''Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid, and Mamluk Eras III: Proceedings of the 6th, 7th and 8th International Colloquium Organized at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in May 1997, 1998, and 1999''. Peeters Publishers. p. 20.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Torky |first=Tarek |title=Khan al-Khalili |url=https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=monument;ISL;eg;Mon01;18;en |access-date=2022-03-11 |website=Discover Islamic Art, Museum With No Frontiers |archive-date=16 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240916022857/https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=monument;ISL;eg;Mon01;18;en |url-status=live }}</ref> The remains of the early Fatimid caliphs in Ifriqiya were also transferred here when al-Mu'izz moved his capital to Cairo.<ref name=":4">{{Cite book |last=Behrens-Abouseif |first=Doris |title=The World of the Fatimids |publisher=Aga Khan Museum; The Institute of Ismaili Studies; Hirmer |year=2018 |editor-last=Melikian-Chirvani |editor-first=Assadullah Souren |location=Toronto; Munich |pages=44–67 |chapter=The Fatimid Dream of a New Capital: Dynastic Patronage and Its Imprint on the Architectural Setting}}</ref> However, the mausoleum was completely demolished by the [[Mamluk Sultanate|Mamluk]] amir Jaharkas al-Khalili in 1385 to make way for the construction of a new merchant building (which gave its name to the present-day market).<ref name=":12">{{Cite book |title=Le Khan al-Khalili et ses environs: Un centre commercial et artisanal au Caire du XIIIe au XXe siècle |publisher=Institut français d'archéologie orientale |year=1999 |editor-last=Denoix |editor-first=Sylvie |location=Cairo |editor-last2=Depaule |editor-first2=Jean-Charles |editor-last3=Tuchscherer |editor-first3=Michel}}</ref><ref name=":13">{{Cite book |last=Williams |first=Caroline |title=Islamic Monuments in Cairo: The Practical Guide |publisher=The American University in Cairo Press |year=2018 |edition=7th |location=Cairo |pages=211}}</ref> During the demolition, Jaharkas reportedly desecrated the bones of the Fatimid royal family by having them dumped into the rubbish hills east of the city.{{Sfn|Raymond|1993|p=57}}