Name: Muslim Sicily
Address: Muslim Sicily, al-Andalus & Europe

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Jawhar's conquest of Egypt and the laying out of Cairo

In 357 the Qarmatians took Damascus and meant for Egypt — the Ubaydids took it first. On Kafur's death order broke down and the pay ran short, so notables wrote to al-Mu'izz asking for an army to surrender the country; he sent his mawla Jawhar the commander with a hundred thousand horse. Jawhar took Egypt, laid out the city on Cairo's present site, built the dar al-imara known as the Two Palaces, cut the Abbasid khutba, clad himself in black and the preachers in white, and ordered the new formula — 'bless Muhammad the Chosen, Ali the Approved, Fatima the Virgin, al-Hasan and al-Husayn the Prophet's grandsons, and the imams, fathers of amir al-mu'minin al-Mu'izz bi'llah' — all in Sha'ban 358. In Ramadan 362 al-Mu'izz himself entered Egypt with his fathers' coffins ، ودخل جوهر البلد يوم الثلاثاء لسبع عشرة ليلة خلت من شعبان وأقام عسكره يدخل البلد مسبعاً أيام، وقطع خطبة بني العباس عن المنابر وأسماهم من على السكة وعوض عن ذلك باسم المعز وأزال الشعار الأسود وألبس الخطباء الثياب البيض، وأذن بحي على خير العمل في جامع مصر العتيق في جمادى الأولى سنة تسع وخمسين وسر جوهر بذلك وكتب إلى المعز يبشره، وفرغ من بناء الجامع الأزهر في سابع رمضان سنة إحدى وستين وجمع فيه الجمعة

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Jawhar's conquest of Egypt and the laying out of Cairo