According to the 15th-century historian Mujir ad-Dīn, soon after the Arabs had wrested back Jerusalem from the Crusaders the quarter was established in 1193 by Saladin's son al-Malik al-Afḍal Nurud-Dīn 'Ali, as a "waqf" (a mortmain consisting of a charitable trust) dedicated to all Moroccan immigrants. The boundaries of this "ḥārat" or quarter, according to a later document, were the outer wall of the Haram al-Sharif to the east; south to the public thoroughfare leading to the Siloan spring; west as far as the residence of the qadi of Jerusalem, Shams al-Din; the northern limit ran to the "Arcades of Umm al-Banat", otherwise known as the &lt;a href="Wilson%27s%20Arch%20%28Jerusalem%29"&gt;Qanṭarat Umam al-Banāt/Wilson's Arch causeway&lt;/a&gt;. It was set aside for "the benefit of all the community of the Moroccans of all description and different occupations, male and female, old and young, the low and the high, to settle on it in its residences and to benefit from its uses according to their different needs." Soon after, Jews, many also from North Africa, were also allowed to settle in the city. By 1303, Moroccans were well established there, a fact attested by the endowment of a "Zāwiyah", or religious institution such as a monastery, made by 'Umar Ibn Abdullah Ibn 'Abdun-Nabi al-Maṣmūdi al-Mujarrad for this quarter.