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Idris II builds Fez

إدريس الثاني يبني فاس

808 CE · 193 AH – 808 CE · 192 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Fes

Idris ibn Idris built the city of Fez on the two banks of its wadi in 193/808, making it the capital of the Maghreb 1.

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Abbasid Fragmentation
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The Early Abbasid Caliphate

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Fes Jdid· Ottoman entry into Fez (964/1554)· Capture of Fez· The great calamity of Fez, 813 AH· Fatima al-Fihri founds al-Qarawiyyin· Fatema Mernissi· Fes

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  1. Kitab al-Ibar of Ibn Khaldun
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Fes Jdid

The New Town of Fes; when the rebellion's west subsided and Sultan Abu Yusuf Ya'qub ibn Abd al-Haqq's kingship ran steady with a great retinue and many incomers, he chose to lay out a separate city for his residence and armies beside old Fes — Fes Jdid, the Marinids' royal seat — and afterwards ordered the qasba of Miknasa built.