Fustat (Arabic: الفُسطاط, romanized: al-Fusṭāṭ), also Fostat, was the first capital of Egypt under Muslim rule, and the historical centre of modern Cairo...

geographical area. Located near the Nile Delta, the city first developed as Fustat following the Muslim conquest of Egypt in 641 next to an existing ancient...

Caliphate, the Arab commander Amr ibn al-As established Fustat (Arabic: الفُسطاط, romanized: al-Fusṭāṭ) just north of the Roman fortress, on the eastern side...

resulting power vacuum led to open infighting among the various factions in Fustat, the capital of Egypt. The atmosphere of crisis was deepened by the simultaneous...

(al-Shamiyin), is a former Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in the Fustat part of Old Cairo, Egypt. According to local folklore, it is located on...

Byzantine periods), the Arab conquerors decided to establish a new city called Fustat to serve as the administrative capital and military garrison center of Egypt...

due to his close relations and reliance on the Arab military settlers of Fustat. Under his direction and supervision, an army led by Musa ibn Nusayr completed...

Civilization المتحف القومي للحضارة المصرية Established 3 April 2021 Location Fustat, Old Cairo, Cairo, Egypt Type History museum Collection size 50,000 items...

province of the Abbasid Caliphate. After the Muslim conquest of Egypt in 641, Fustat was established, just north of Coptic Cairo and the regional capital of...

Abbasids. The Ikhshidids came to an end when the Fatimid army conquered Fustat in 969. Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid, a Turkic mamluk soldier, was appointed...

Jubayr notes eleven congregational mosques in the city. In another example, Fustat, the predecessor of modern Cairo, was founded in the seventh century with...

writings also had vociferous critics, particularly in Spain. He died in Fustat, Egypt, and, according to Jewish tradition, was buried in Tiberias. His...

bureaucracy and cordial ties with the Coptic patriarch Benjamin. He founded Fustat as the provincial capital with the mosque later called after him at its...

the Muslim conquest of Egypt in 641 AD, when a new capital was founded at Fustat (later absorbed into Cairo). Alexandria was best known for the Lighthouse...

construction of the city started. The city was located several miles northeast of Fusṭāt, the older regional capital founded by the Arab conquerors in the seventh...

Constans II was repulsed. The Arabs founded the capital of Egypt called Fustat, which was later burned down during the Crusades. Cairo was later built...

communities, whether Mecca, Kufa, Basra, Syria, etc. (Egypt's school in Fustat was a branch of Medina's school of law and followed such practices—up until...

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Museum in Tahrir Square to the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Fustat. This event was broadcast live through the country's major television channels...

region, but caught fire easily. During the conquest of Egypt the area of Fustat was used by the Muslim army as a base. Upon the conquest of Alexandria,...

Ziyad. Meanwhile, Amr ibn al-As ruled Egypt from the provincial capital of Fustat as a virtual partner of Mu'awiya until his death in 663, after which loyalist...

Mathieu; Vanthieghem, Naïm (11 April 2019). "Recording debts in Sufyānid Fusṭāṭ: a reexamination of the procedures and calendar in use in the first/seventh...

built in 641–642 CE as the center of the newly founded capital of Egypt, Fustat. The original structure was the first mosque ever built in Egypt and one...

The latter's troops were defeated by Amr's forces, the provincial capital Fustat was captured and Muhammad was executed on the orders of Mu'awiya ibn Hudayj...

these encampments later grew into cities like Basra and Kufa in Iraq and Fustat in Egypt. When ʿUmar was assassinated in 644 CE, ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān, second...

previous capital, al-Askar, which in turn was adjacent to the settlement of Fustat. All three settlements were later incorporated into the city of Cairo, founded...

country called Bobali, which historians suggest was Berbera in Somalia. In Fustat, Egypt, the fame of Chinese ceramics there led to an enormous demand for...

generous gifts and established an observatory for him on Mount Mokattam near Fustat. Al-Aziz Billah ordered him to make astronomical tables, which he completed...

fall of the Tulunid emirate. He was an Egyptian officer born in the Bay of Fustat and that's where the name "ibn al-Khalji" come from. Ibn al-Khalij was one...

the former Roman channel near the Nile was absorbed into the new city of Fustat. A geography treatise De Mensura Orbis Terrae written by the Irish monk...