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The Mosques of Egypt

The Mosques of Egypt

Hardcover

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ISBN10: 9774167325
ISBN13: 9789774167324
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Published: Jan 5 2017
Pages: 404
Weight: 6.30
Height: 1.60 Width: 10.20 Depth: 12.20
Language: English

Less than ten years after the death of the Prophet Muhammad, the new religion of Islam arrived in Egypt with the army of Amr ibn al-As in AD 639. Amr immediately established his capital at al-Fustat, just south of modern Cairo, and there he built Africa's first mosque, one still in regular use today. Since then, governors, caliphs, sultans, amirs, beys, pashas, among others, have built mosques, madrasas, and mausoleums throughout Egypt in a changing sequence of Fatimid, Ayyubid, Mamluk, Ottoman, and modern styles.

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