Period of Muslim-Mamluk occupation

1260 Mamluk conquest.
1267 – Muslims forbid Jews from entering a cave. Jewish prayer continues near the seventh step.
– The Ramban visits Hebron “to carve a grave for him”.
– The Ramban student visits Hebron and identifies the tomb of Yishai at the top of Tel Hebron.
13th-14th centuries – Muslims build mosque spiers over the structure of the Cave of the Patriarchs and the “Yosefia” (“Joseph’s Tomb” according to the Muslims) adjacent to the southern wall. The Jewish community in Hebron gathers into the “ghetto” – the Jewish quarter.
1489 R. Ovadia of Bartenora, the Mishnah commentator, lives in Hebron.