The mosques of Egypt / Bernard O'Kane.
Less 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 639. 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...
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Language: | English |
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Cairo, Egypt :
American University In Cairo Press,
2016.
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NA6081 .O33 2016
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