43 results for “egypt”
Clear filter...his sight through Yusuf's shirt. The family was reunited in Egypt, and Yusuf fulfilled his dream of his parents and brothers ...
... reunion with his family as the second most powerful man in Egypt. Yusuf was gifted with extraordinary beauty and was grante...
...ding his years in Madyan in preparation before returning to Egypt for his prophetic mission. This connection makes Shuaib the...
...re. Musa was born during the reign of Fir'awn (Pharaoh) in Egypt, at a time when the Banu Isra'il (Children of Israel) were ...
...polis was the decisive engagement in the Muslim conquest of Egypt. Amr ibn al-As had led a Muslim force of roughly 4,000 into...
...at (near modern Cairo) as the new administrative capital of Egypt rather than Alexandria, a decision that shaped the country'...
...oversaw the conquest of Persia, Iraq, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt.
...fan was besieged in his home in Medina by rebel groups from Egypt, Kufa, and Basra, who accused his administration of nepotis...
...ed to assassinate Muawiyah in Damascus and Amr ibn al-As in Egypt — both failed. Ali survived two days before dying from the ...
... which had served as the bureaucratic language of Syria and Egypt, was replaced by Arabic in government correspondence and of...
...eral decades, beginning with Amr ibn al-As's subjugation of Egypt in 20 AH and culminating in the complete pacification of th...
...ces were routed, and he fled westward — through Syria, into Egypt, and south into the Egyptian province. He was tracked down ...
...ed power, he spent years as a fugitive, crossing Syria into Egypt and then traversing North Africa while Abbasid agents pursu...
..., was defeated at the Battle of the Zab and later killed in Egypt, ending Umayyad rule in the east. The Abbasids ushered in a...
...Mongol destruction of Baghdad, the Mamluk Sultan Baybars of Egypt invited a surviving member of the Abbasid family to Cairo, ...
...the Fatimid dynasty — a Shia Ismaili dynasty that conquered Egypt and sought to spread their heterodox creed. The original al...
The conquest of Alexandria completed the Muslim takeover of Egypt, one of the wealthiest provinces of the Byzantine Empire an...
...Umayyad army. Marwan II fled westward through Palestine and Egypt, where he was eventually killed in a church in Egypt. The A...
...ent years patiently unifying the Muslim states of Syria and Egypt, lured the crusader army out of its fortresses in the heigh...
...tates, comparable in scale to Hattin. The Ayyubid sultan of Egypt, al-Salih Ayyub, had allied with displaced Khwarazmian Turk...
...scus (1260), and were poised to sweep through Palestine and Egypt. The Mamluk Sultan Qutuz, who had taken power specifically ...
...luk Sultanate's control of Syria, Palestine, and ultimately Egypt. Sultan Selim I, fresh from his victory at Chaldiran agains...
...s was the decisive engagement that broke Byzantine power in Egypt and opened the way to Alexandria and full Muslim control of...
...tory. He conquered the Sassanid Empire, took the Levant and Egypt from Byzantines, established the Islamic calendar, created ...
Amr ibn al-As led the Muslim conquest of Egypt, defeating the Byzantine garrison. He founded Fustat (Old C...
...isalah (the first systematic work on usul al-fiqh), died in Egypt. His school synthesized the approaches of the Medinan and I...
...aliphate, was established in North Africa before conquering Egypt and founding Cairo in 969 CE. Despite being Shia, the Fatim...
The Fatimid general Jawhar al-Siqilli conquered Egypt and founded the city of al-Qahirah (Cairo) as the new capit...
...the Ayyubid dynasty after deposing the Fatimid caliphate in Egypt. The Ayyubids restored Sunni governance and successfully de...
The Fifth Crusade targeted Egypt. Crusaders captured Damietta but were eventually defeated. ...
The Mamluks, former slave-soldiers, seized power in Egypt following the death of the Ayyubid sultan. The Mamluk Sulta...
...estine. This was the first decisive Mongol defeat and saved Egypt, the Hijaz, and North Africa from destruction.
...ubi, the Maliki jurist and Quran commentator, died in Upper Egypt. His Tafsir al-Jami li-Ahkam al-Quran is one of the most im...
...t Shafi'i-Maliki jurist, hadith scholar, and Chief Judge of Egypt, died in Cairo.
... world, killing an estimated one-third of the population in Egypt, Syria, and North Africa.
... near Aleppo. This victory led to Ottoman control of Syria, Egypt, and the holy cities of Mecca and Medina. The Ottoman sulta...
Ottoman Sultan Selim I conquered Egypt, ending the Mamluk Sultanate and gaining control over the M...
Napoleon's invasion demonstrated European military superiority and was a shock to the Muslim world. Though the French were expelled within three years, the even
Muhammad Ali Pasha, the founder of modern Egypt, modernized Egypt's army, education system, and economy. Hi...
Muhammad Abduh, the Grand Mufti of Egypt and pioneer of Islamic modernism, died in Cairo. With his t...
Hassan al-Banna founded the Muslim Brotherhood in Ismailia, Egypt. It became the most influential Islamic movement of the 20t...
Israel defeated Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, capturing East Jerusalem and al-Masjid ...
Egypt and Syria attacked Israeli positions during Ramadan. The Eg...