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Cairo (Map)
2. Cairo, Fustat, ground-plan of house, 9th–10th centuries: (a) central or main court; (b) secondary court; (c) iwans; (d) fountain; (e) pool; (f) sunken ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Cairo (Map)
1. Map of Cairo: (a) Babylon (Qasr al-Sham); (b) Amnis Trajani (Khalij Misri); (c) al-Fustat; (d) al-Qarafa al-Kubra; (e) al-Qarafa al-Sughra; (f) al-῾Askar; (g) ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Cairo (Image)
3. Cairo, Bab al-Nasr, 1087–92; photo credit: Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Cairo (Image)
4. Cairo, fountain and elementary school ( sabil-kuttāb ) of ῾Abd al-Rahman Katkhuda, 1744; photo credit: Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Cairo (Image)
6. Cairo, tomb of al-Shafi῾i, 1211; photo credit: Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Cairo (Image)
5. Cairo, al-Azhar Mosque, 970 with later additions; photo credit: Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Cairo (Image)
2. Cairo, mosque of Muhammad ῾Ali, 1828–c. 1857; photo credit: Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom; see Cairo, §III, K ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Cairo (Subject Entry)
The capital of Egypt, Cairo was founded in 969 ce by the Shīʿī Ismāʿīlī dynasty, the Fāṭimids. Its name in Arabic is al-Qāhirah, “the ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Cairo (Subject Entry)
Arabic al-Qahira (meaning “victorious”). Capital of Egypt, largest city in Africa (sixteen million inhabitants), and a major cultural, religious, and political center. Located on ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Cairo. (Subject Entry)
The capital of Egypt and the largest city in both the country and the Middle East, Cairo was founded in 969 ce by the ...
Source: Oxford Islamic Studies Online
Cairo (Subject Entry)
[al-Qahira; Fr. Le Caire, Ger. Kairo; colloquial Arab. Miṣr, Maṣr]. Capital city of Egypt. Founded in 641 as al-Fustat, it was successively the seat ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam (Subject Entry)
The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) issued the Cairo Declaration in 1990 , asserting that “fundamental rights and universal freedoms in Islam are ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam (1990) (Primary Source)
Even though all but one Muslim-majority country (Saudi Arabia) ratified the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) (1948), the generation of Islamic thinkers that ...
Calendar (Subject Entry)
See Islamic Calendar . ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Calendar (Subject Entry)
See Islamic Calendar . ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World
Calendar (Subject Entry)
See Islamic Calendar ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Calendar, Islamic (Subject Entry)
In 622 the Prophet Muhammad and his followers moved from the city of Mecca to Medina, where they established the first Islamic community. This ...
Source: The Islamic World: Past and Present
Calendars (Subject Entry)
The word “calendar” refers to different systems of organizing time. In older Islamic sources, the word tārīkh was used for “calendar,” but later it ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science, and Technology in Islam
Caliph (Subject Entry)
Caliph is the title held by those who succeeded Muhammad as rulers of the Islamic world between 632 and 1924 . As Muslim heads ...
Source: The Islamic World: Past and Present
Caliph (Subject Entry)
The Arabic word khalīfah (vicegerent, deputy, or successor) is one of the titles—others included imām (leader, particularly of prayer) and amīr al-muʿminīn (commander of ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
