"The superintendent Ali Agha has built this – that the reward should all fall on Yusuf Agha. On seeing it, the Oracle Hatif pronounced its date: Muharram of the year 1092 (AH)."
"This [dome] has been built out of piety on behalf of Yusuf, / the agha of the Abode of Supreme Felicity [Istanbul], through his perfect piety. / We are presented with it in the phrasing (chronogram) regarding its construction. / Ali has built it [the dome], but the reward for it returns to Yusuf. / Muharram of the year 1092 (AH)."
ในข้อความภาษาอาหรับ:
بناه على التقوى على ليوسفاغا دار اوج السعد من بره وفيلنا جاء في التأريخ عند بنائهبناه على والثواب ليوسفمحرم سنة ١٠٩٢
1 2 Carole Hillenbrand (2000). The Crusades: Islamic perspectives (Illustrated, reprint, annotated ed.). Routledge. p. 191. ISBN978-0-415-92914-1. a monumental inscription dated 587(AH)/1191 in [Saladin's] name on the Dome of Joseph [Qubbat Yusuf] on the Haram esplanade: 'the victorious king, the probity of this world and of [true] religion, the Sultan of Islam and of the Muslims, the servant of the two noble sanctuaries and of Jerusalem.'
↑ Hillenbrand, Robert (2000). Auld, Sylvia (บ.ก.). Ottoman Jerusalem. London: British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem. p. 16. ISBN978-1-901435-03-0. […] two structures erected by Yusuf Agha in 1681 – the Qubbat Yusuf (an open-plan aedicule) and the Qubbat Yusuf Agha (a closed domed square) – clearly suggest that, despite the identical terminology, different forms connoted different functions in Jerusalem at that time.
1 2 3 Tutuncu, Mehmet (2006). Turkish Jerusalem (1516-1917): Ottoman Inscriptions from Jerusalem. SOTA. The name Qubbat Yusuf refers not only to the builder Yusuf Agha but it also refers to Salahaddin. He is referred to in the inscription as Abulmuzaffer Yusuf.A version is here, p. 10-12, but it misspells "piety" (should be التقوى) as التققى.
