14 results for “cairo”
Clear filter...t, defeating the Byzantine garrison. He founded Fustat (Old Cairo) and built the first mosque in Africa. Egypt became a major...
...atimid general Jawhar as-Siqilli founded al-Azhar mosque in Cairo, which evolved into one of the world's oldest universities....
...haldun, the father of sociology and historiography, died in Cairo. His Muqaddimah introduced the concept of asabiyyah (social...
Al-Azhar mosque in Cairo, founded by the Fatimids in 970 CE, began functioning as a ...
...fi al-Hadith (Commander of the Faithful in Hadith), died in Cairo. His Fath al-Bari, the most celebrated commentary on Sahih ...
...lished in North Africa before conquering Egypt and founding Cairo in 969 CE. Despite being Shia, the Fatimids generally toler...
...s lavish generosity along the way disrupted gold markets in Cairo and Medina. His journey put the Mali Empire on European map...
...e of the most prolific scholars in Islamic history, died in Cairo. He authored over 500 works on hadith, tafsir, fiqh, Arabic...
...nd Mufti of Egypt and pioneer of Islamic modernism, died in Cairo. With his teacher Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani and his student R...
...Siqilli conquered Egypt and founded the city of al-Qahirah (Cairo) as the new capital of the Fatimid Caliphate. The city was ...
... 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.
...ic scholars in Islamic history with over 500 works, died in Cairo. His al-Itqan fi Ulum al-Quran is the most comprehensive wo...