However, given his young age (15) at the time, there is a fair chance that the decision to build the madrasa was in accordance with his mother's own wishes, especially as there are few other examples of such impressive monuments being built for the female relatives of Mamluk sultans.[1][3] The site of the madrasa was reportedly once a cemetery for the people of Cairo.[4] Khawand returned to Cairo the next year (in 1369-70) and endowed the madrasa and its mosque.[4] She died in 1373 and was buried in the larger of the two mausoleums attached to her madrasa.[2]