Name: Southern Cemetery
Address: Southern Cemetery, Levant & Iraq

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Al-Fustat

Al-Fustat in al-Baladhuri: the city had been called al-Yuna, renamed al-Fustat by the Muslims as 'the people's encampment and gathering' — or, some say, for the tent Amr pitched there; Amr camped at Jinan al-Rayhan while its folk ditched, and al-Zubayr scaled its fortress by ladder bare-sworded until it fell by force; al-Zubayr laid his khitta there and built his famous house — the one Abdallah ibn al-Zubayr later lodged in when raiding Ifriqiya — its jizya set at two dinars per free man save the poor, its land made kharaj-land. The Arabic Papyrology Database preserves documents issued at Fustat itself, dated within 801–900 CE — the sale of a house, the lease of a room in an enclosure, and a rent roll of urban properties — everyday paper evidence of the city's housing.

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