What is Cairo?

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Cairo, al-Qahira al-Mu'izziyya, is the city of al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah the Fatimid, founded by Jawhar in 969. It holds al-Azhar, one of the greatest surviving universities of Islam, the Citadel of Saladin and a museum of Mamluk architecture. ¹

Disputing the count of raids and sariyas

The maghazi arithmetic disputes: Ibn Ishaq's twenty-six raids versus the twenty-seven that split Wadi'l-Qura from Khaybar; nine pitched battles common to both lists with al-Waqidi adding Wadi'l-Qura and al-Ghaba for eleven; and the sariya counts ranging from thirty-five to al-Waqidi's forty-eight (in al-Tabari's chain) to sixty-six.

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Disputing the count of raids and sariyas