The “caller” and “the auctioneer” are intermediaries for “brokerage” … and a document for “documenting the sale” and preserving the rights of both parties.
Captain – Hussam Rustom
Mamluk Cairo was known for its markets, which gained wide fame and became famous, due to the great revival in the movement of buying and selling, as it embraced specialized markets that “only sell the commodity in it”, the most important of which is the “horse market” which was established in the Rumaila area under the Qalaat al-Jabal Square in Cairo, as well. On markets for “different horse machines”.
Among the distinctive signs of these markets is that the sale process in them is carried out by what was known at the time as the caller or “the auctioneer,” which is the person who calls for the calling horse or “to be sold”.
Because of the importance of horses in respect and strength, the Mamluk Sultans, in their will to the advance of their Mamelukes, made sure to remind him always that “he does not stand in the markets that it is not appropriate to stand in, such as the markets of perfumers, the cloth, and the industrial market.” And he is not suitable for his rank except in the horse market and the arms market. And the book market “as one of the perfection of the military industry.
In the event that an agreement is reached between the seller and the buyer on the price of the horse, within the market, the sale process is documented in a way that preserves each party’s full rights.
Among the texts of those documented contracts: “In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, the Supreme Council acknowledged thanks Al-Zahiri from the“ Al-Ashraf ”class the correct acknowledgment that he received and received from the High Council of the Sword Ganim from Akbardi – from the Rakaybah class – of honorable and pure gold from the legitimate defect. Ten Egyptian dinars, which is the price of what he sold and handed over to him and he acknowledged receiving it, and it is all stallion, its red sheep shrieked, the left lip lured a bird, its forehead a mole, its dag .. and the sale in a timely manner on the condition of innocence from the legal defect .. There is no guarantee other than the obscurity of the situation, and eat Usual blackberries ”.
It is noteworthy that the caller is the person who calls for the horses to call or to be sold, while the auctioneer is the one who mediates between the seller and the buyer, by offering the horses calling to the buyers in the presence of their owners or their absence in exchange for a fee that he gets and is known as “the sign”, or Half of the brokerage, which is “that whoever sells something, he is given the brokerage fee – according to what has been decided from ancient times, for every hundred dirhams.
With Nasir al-Din al-Shaikhi taking over the ministry, he decided every “Dalal” one dirham from every two dirhams, so the pamper became diligent in order to attain his habit, so people were harmed by that decision and after they came forward with several appeals, Sultan Al-Nasir Muhammad nullified the decision, in what was known as the Nasserist Rock.