The Mosques of Egypt History Foreword: Na'ima B

Foreword: Na'ima B

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The Mosques of Egypt History Foreword: Na'ima BLess than ten years after the death of the Prophet Muhammad, the new religion of Islam arrived in Egypt with the army of Amr ibn al As in AD 641. Amr immediately established his capital at al Fustat, just south of modern Cairo, and there he built Africa's first mosque, one still in regular use today. Since then, governors, caliphs, sultans, amirs, beys, pashas, among others, have built mosques, madrasas, and mausoleums throughout Egypt in a changing