بناء سور مصر وقلعة الجبل

بناء سور مصر وقلعة الجبل

c. 1176 CE · 572 AH

In 572 Salah al-Din ordered the great wall girding Fustat and Cairo — Baha' al-Din Qaraqush over its building, 29,300 Hashimi cubits round — and the citadel on the Muqattam mount, seat of sultans finished only under al-Malik al-Kamil, its first dweller. He also built Imam al-Shafi'i's turba {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 684-685}.

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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Egypt & Nile
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1160117011801190 c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks

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صلاح الدين يوسف بن أيوب الملك الناصر· بهاء الدين قراقوش

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قطع الخطبة العبيدية وإقامة الخطبة العباسية بمصر· وفاة صلاح الدين وتركته· مؤامرة إعادة الدعوة العبيدية وصلب أصحابها· حريق الفسطاط ووزارة شيركوه ثم صلاح الدين· استرداد صلاح الدين بيت المقدس· بعثة أسد الدين شيركوه الأولى إلى مصر· بهاء الدين قراقوش· صلاح الدين يوسف بن أيوب الملك الناصر

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  • Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition)
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قطع الخطبة العبيدية وإقامة الخطبة العباسية بمصر

Al-Imad al-Katib: Salah al-Din opened the year 567 with Egypt's greatest obedience — the Abbasid khutba, first Jumu'a at Fustat's mosque, the second at Cairo; al-Adid died that Ashura, and the palace's treasures sold for ten years. Shihab al-Din ibn Abi Asrun bore the news to Baghdad, and al-Imad wrote a general proclamation read across the lands of Islam — 'no minbar remains in those lands but the khutba for our lord al-Mustadi' is upon it'. Ibn al-Athir adds: Nur al-Din ordered it, Salah al-Din feared an Egyptian rising, and the Ajami called al-Amir al-Alim mounted the minbar before the khatib and prayed for al-Mustadi' — 'not two goats butted over it'. The khutba spread to Yemen, Barqa, Tawzar and Egypt to Aswan; Ibn al-Jawzi wrote his book al-Nasr ala Misr {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 681-683}.