About The Builder
Arabic: عبدالرحمن كتخدا- Abd al Rahman Katkhuda
The Sabil-Kuttab of 'Abd al Rahman Katkhuda of 1744 was named for its patron, a Mamluk Amir (prince) and leader of the Egyptian Janissaries. He died in 1776. He did much work in Cairo including developments to Al Azhar university and mosque.He also rebuilt the dome of the Qala'un Mosque after an earthquake in Egypt.
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“Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.”
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