Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "'Ala ad-Din al-Basir" in English language version.
[p.198–199] inspectuer des fondations de Jérusalem (nāẓiru auqāfi l-qudsi)p.198 "quant à Rukni, il se rapporte peut-être à Baibars, qui était surnommé Rukn al-dīn."
'Alā' ad-dīn Aidugdī, Ruknī, †693/1294. Nāẓir al-awḳāf, à Jérusalem
[The Ablution Gate] was ruined and was rebuilt by ʿAlāʼ ad-Dīn al-Baṣīr, when he restored the Ablutions Place […] al-Baṣīr served as the nāzir al-Ḥaramayn (the superintendent of the Two Ḥarams of Jerusalem and Hebron) during the reign of al-Ẓāhr Baybars.
The great ʿAlāʼ ad-Dīn the blind is Aydughdī b. ʿAbdallah aṣ-Ṣaliḥī an-Najmī (the Mamlūk of aṣ-Ṣāliḥ Najm ad-Dīn Ayyūb MS) ... during the reign of aẓ-Ẓāhir Baybars and al-Manṣūr Qalāwūn ... He built the lockable installation (al-maghlaq) in the town of our master al-Khalīl
Using his cane as a yardstick, he even discovered a mistake in the measurement of a hall in his ribat […] that went unnoticed by his clear-sighted muhandisin [architects/surveyors مهندس] and their assistants.
Tariq Ala ad-Din (Aladdin Street) – named not for the man but for his tomb
Sabīl Baṣīrī […] is named after […] ʿAlāʼ ad-Dīn al-Baṣīr, but the present structure was erected at the expense of a pious Muslim pilgrim, Ibrahīm al-Rumī, in 1435
The Aladdin Al-Busairi Mosque (مسجد علاء الدين البصيري) […] nine meters long and eight meters wide […] next to it is the shrine of Aladdin Al-Busairi […] in this Ribat, and it was restored it in 1971 after it was previously used as a prison.
Using his cane as a yardstick, he even discovered a mistake in the measurement of a hall in his ribat […] that went unnoticed by his clear-sighted muhandisin [architects/surveyors مهندس] and their assistants.
