20 results for “cairo”
Clear filter... decisively near ancient Heliopolis (modern Ain Shams, near Cairo). The battle opened the Nile Delta to Muslim control and be...
...without destruction. Amr established al-Fustat (near modern Cairo) as the new administrative capital of Egypt rather than Ale...
...f Egypt invited a surviving member of the Abbasid family to Cairo, where he was installed as caliph in 659 AH. This Cairo-bas...
Al-Azhar mosque-university in Cairo was founded in 361 AH by the Fatimid dynasty — a Shia Ismai...
...is in 640 CE. After capturing Babylon Fortress (near modern Cairo), Muslim forces advanced on Alexandria, the imperial capita...
...slims at Heliopolis — ancient 'City of the Sun' near modern Cairo. The Byzantine force was routed. The fall of Heliopolis was...
...t, defeating the Byzantine garrison. He founded Fustat (Old Cairo) and built the first mosque in Africa. Egypt became a major...
...lished in North Africa before conquering Egypt and founding Cairo in 969 CE. Despite being Shia, the Fatimids generally toler...
...Siqilli conquered Egypt and founded the city of al-Qahirah (Cairo) as the new capital of the Fatimid Caliphate. The city was ...
...atimid general Jawhar as-Siqilli founded al-Azhar mosque in Cairo, which evolved into one of the world's oldest universities....
Al-Azhar mosque in Cairo, founded by the Fatimids in 970 CE, began functioning as a ...
... Abd al-Salam, known as the Sultan of the Scholars, died in Cairo. He was renowned for his fearless advocacy for justice.
...first described the pulmonary circulation of blood, died in Cairo, three centuries before Harvey's similar discovery.
...i jurist, hadith scholar, and Chief Judge of Egypt, died in Cairo.
...s lavish generosity along the way disrupted gold markets in Cairo and Medina. His journey put the Mali Empire on European map...
...haldun, the father of sociology and historiography, died in Cairo. His Muqaddimah introduced the concept of asabiyyah (social...
...fi al-Hadith (Commander of the Faithful in Hadith), died in Cairo. His Fath al-Bari, the most celebrated commentary on Sahih ...
...e of the most prolific scholars in Islamic history, died in Cairo. He authored over 500 works on hadith, tafsir, fiqh, Arabic...
...ic scholars in Islamic history with over 500 works, died in Cairo. His al-Itqan fi Ulum al-Quran is the most comprehensive wo...
...nd Mufti of Egypt and pioneer of Islamic modernism, died in Cairo. With his teacher Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani and his student R...