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the sources credit Jawhar and the Fatimids
Saladin came two centuries after her founding
the Mamluks ruled her after the Fatimids
Muhammad Ali came in the nineteenth century
the sources have the Fatimids build it mosque and college
al-Azhar is a learning institution, not a palace
al-Azhar is a university, not a hospital
al-Azhar is a university, not a market
the sources place the citadel on the hill
the citadel is in Cairo, not Alexandria
the citadel was built in Egypt, not Syria
the citadel has nothing to do with Mecca
the sources have him make it the centre against the Franks
the Mongols came centuries after the Fatimids
Muhammad Ali is nineteenth-century, not Crusader-era
Saladin made Cairo the resistance heart
the market stayed her trade centre in the sources
Khan al-Khalili is a market, not a hospital
Khan al-Khalili is in Cairo, not Baghdad
Khan al-Khalili is a Mamluk market, not Crusader
the sources have her before Cairo
Fustat is in Egypt, not al-Andalus
Fustat is Arab-Egyptian, not Persian
Fustat is on the Nile, not the Mediterranean
the sources date its founding to 970
al-Azhar is far older than a century
al-Azhar is among the world''s oldest universities
al-Azhar did not exist in pharaonic times
the sources weave the four dynasties into her fabric
the Abbasids never ruled her
Cairo is an Islamic city, not pharaonic
she is among the Islamic world''s oldest cities
al-Maqrizi''s history and the French Description reach us
Cairo is among the most-documented cities
Muslims wrote of her centuries before Europe
Fatimids and Mamluks wrote of her before the Ottomans
the city gathered minaret upon minaret in her fabric
the name is for the many, not one year
the nickname is for her historic architecture
the sources tie the name to her many mosques
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