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Lahun

اللاهون

Al-Fayyum

Lahun in the Fayyum: it is related that Yusuf built it to share out the water, and in 307 AH the Fatimid forces entered the Fayyum through it 1 2.

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Era
The Prophetic Era
Region
Egypt & Nile
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Overview

Lahun is a town in the Fayyum. The Khitat tells that Yusuf built it to share out the water among the Fayyum's lands 1.

The canal

Al-Maqrizi says that Yusuf dug the Khalij al-Manhi from upper Ashmun to Lahun, and ordered the builders to dig Lahun 3.

Entry into the Fayyum

In 307 AH Abu al-Qasim ibn al-Mahdi went by his ships to Lahun, and the troops followed him and entered the Fayyum in Safar 2.

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Al-Fayyum

People and things also explored

Amr's Four Lieutenants Carry the Fustat Terms through Egypt· Sufi Abu Taleb· Al-Awsiyya al-Kubra· Bayad· Damuna· Al-Fayyum

Sources

  1. Al-Maqrizi, al-Mawaiz wa-l-i'tibar bi-dhikr al-khitat wa-l-athar (al-Khitat al-Maqriziyya), ed. Muhammad Zaynhum and Madiha al-Sharqawi (Cairo: Maktabat Madbuli, 1998) , p.720
  2. Al-Maqrizi, al-Mawaiz wa-l-i'tibar bi-dhikr al-khitat wa-l-athar (al-Khitat al-Maqriziyya), ed. Muhammad Zaynhum and Madiha al-Sharqawi (Cairo: Maktabat Madbuli, 1998) , p.531
  3. Al-Maqrizi, al-Mawaiz wa-l-i'tibar bi-dhikr al-khitat wa-l-athar (al-Khitat al-Maqriziyya), ed. Muhammad Zaynhum and Madiha al-Sharqawi (Cairo: Maktabat Madbuli, 1998) , p.723
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Amr's Four Lieutenants Carry the Fustat Terms through Egypt

In al-Baladhuri, from a group who witnessed Egypt's conquest: when Amr ibn al-As took al-Fustat he sent Abdallah ibn Hudhafa al-Sahmi to Ayn Shams, who gained its land and compounded its villages on Fustat's terms; sent Kharija ibn Hudhafa al-Adawi to al-Fayyum, al-Ashmunayn, Ikhmim, al-Bashrudat and the Sa'id's villages, who did likewise; sent Umayr ibn Wahb al-Jumahi to Tinnis, Dimyat, Tuna, Damira, Shata, Diqahla, Bana and Busir, who did likewise; and sent Utba ibn Amir al-Juhani — or, some say, his mawla Wardan, lord of Suq Wardan in Egypt — to all lower Egypt's villages, who did likewise; thus was Amr's conquest of Egypt completed and its land made kharaj-land.