Cairo

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Sources

1. BookThe Black Death in the Middle East
2. BookThe Black Death: The Great Mortality of 1348–1350: A Brief History with Documents

Relations

has part:

• Fustat

  Sources: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

location of:

• Al-Azhar Mosque

  Sources: The Art of the Fatimid Period (909–1171), Historic Cairo

• Bab Zuwayla

  Sources: Osman’s Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire, 1300–1923, Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire

• Egyptian Museum

  Sources: Encyclopædia Britannica

• Egyptian Royal Opera House

  Sources: Grove Music Online

• Studio Misr

  Sources: Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity

capital of:

• Fatimid Caliphate973 CE O.S. – 1171 O.S.

  Sources: The Art of the Fatimid Period (909–1171), Historic Cairo

• Mamluk Sultanate

  Sources: The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century, Osman’s Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire, 1300–1923

founded by:

• Jawhar al-Siqillisince 969 CE O.S.

  Sources: The Art of the Fatimid Period (909–1171), Historic Cairo

visited by:

• Ibn Battuta

  Sources: The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325–1354, The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century

Appears in20 items

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  A History of Film1 item
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    Studio Misr opens1935
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  Eras of Classical Music1 item
  • 
    Verdi’s Aida in Cairo24 Dec 1871
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  Kingdoms of Africa1 item
  • Mansa Musa in CairoRajab 724 AH
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  Railways: From Stockton to the Shinkansen1 item
  • Alexandria to Cairo: Africa’s first railway1856
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  The Bible: Story and Scholarship1 item
  • 
    The Leningrad Codex is finished in CairoSivan 4770 AM
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  The Black Death3 items
  • Egypt and Syria748 AH
  • Plague reaches Alexandriac. Oct 1347 O.S.
  • The height of the plague in CairoSha'ban 749 AH
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  The Crusades2 items
  • The Ayyubid sultanate7 Muharram 567 AH
  • The Fifth Crusade1217 O.S.
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  The Islamic Golden Age4 items
  • Jawhar founds CairoSha'ban 358 AH
  • 
    First Friday prayer at al-Azhar7 Ramadan 361 AH
  • Ibn al-Haytham’s Book of Opticsc. 407 AH
  • The last Abbasid caliph of Baghdad is put to death14 Safar 656 AH
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  The Ottoman Empire1 item
  • Cairo falls after Ridaniya22 Jan 1517 O.S.
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  The Travels of Ibn Battuta3 items
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    Cairo, “mother of cities”Jumada al-Akhira 726 AH
  • The Black Death in DamascusRabi' al-Thani 749 AH
  • Last hajjDhu al-Hijja 749 AH
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  The World’s Religions1 item
  • 
    Mansa Musa passes through Cairo on the hajj724 AH
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  Votes for Women1 item
  • Doria Shafik storms Egypt’s Parliament19 Feb 1951

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  Kingdoms of Africa1 item
  • Abu Bakr sails into the Atlanticc. 1311