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Qalyub

قليوب

Town in the Al Qalyubiyah governorate of Egypt.

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Levant & Iraq
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Birthplace of
Shihab al-Din al-Qalyubi

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al-Hidaya min al-dalala fi ma'rifat al-waqt wal-qibla (al-Qalyubi)· Shihab al-Din al-Qalyubi

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islam.museum contributors. “Qalyub”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/qalyub/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.

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al-Hidaya min al-dalala fi ma'rifat al-waqt wal-qibla (al-Qalyubi)

Treatise by Shihab al-Din al-Qalyubi on finding prayer times and the qibla without instruments, which ends with his remark that he examined most mihrabs in Egypt's cemeteries and found them misaligned.