Alexandria is an Egyptian port on the Mediterranean. It was Egypt's seat of kingship before Fustat and stayed the home of learning and seat of wisdom until the Muslims opened it in the days of Umar ibn al-Khattab (may God be pleased with him).
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Alexandria
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Alexandria is an Egyptian port on the Mediterranean. Al-Maqrizi reports that Alexander son of Philip the Macedonian renewed it, moving the royal seat from Memphis to make it the seat of kingship in Egypt; he quotes Abu al-Salt that it 'was the home of learning and seat of wisdom' until the Muslims opened it in the days of Umar ibn al-Khattab (may God be pleased with him) — when Amr ibn al-As (may God be pleased with him) took it with the Muslim armies the seat of kingship moved to Fustat. He records, from Ibn Abd al-Hakam and Abu al-Fida, that it was a triple city, each quarter walled, its streets ordered like a chessboard; that the Romans resisted Umar nine months and retook it later; and that the Franks besieged it in 562 AH until Saladin and his uncle Asad al-Din Shirkuh repelled them after four months.
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