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Fustat (Arabic: الفُسطاط, romanized: al-Fusṭāṭ), also Fostat, was the first capital of Egypt under Muslim rule, and the historical centre of modern Cairo. It was built adjacent to what is now known as Old Cairo by the Rashidun Muslim general 'Amr ibn al-'As immediately after the Muslim conquest of Egypt in AD 641, and featured the ...
It is one of the most deep-rooted places in Cairo, as it contains many archaeological sites, such as the Synagogue of Ben E'zra, more than seven old churches, the Mosque of ‘Amr ibn al-‘As, the excavated remains of the old city of al-Fustat, the Nilometer on al-Roda island, the palace of al-Manesterley, and Mohammad Ali Palace in al-Manyal.
Al-Fusṭāṭ, capital of the province of Egypt during the Muslim caliphates of the Umayyad and Abbasid and succeeding dynasties, until captured by the Fāṭimid general Jawhar in 969. Founded in 641 by the Muslim conqueror of Egypt, ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ, on the east bank of the Nile River, south of modern.
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Fustat is the “Old City” of Cairo, Egypt’s capital. Fustat was the first Muslim capital of Egypt when a Caliphate’s general conquered it in 640 A.D. For five hundred years Fustat flourished and became the home of Byzantine Greeks, Coptic Christians, Jews, and Muslims.
They were discovered in a storeroom of the Ben Ezra Synagogue, a Jewish house of worship in Fustat (Old Cairo), Egypt. Although best known for the documents found there, the synagogue (the focus of this essay) is a remarkable monument in its own right that provided a center for Jewish communal worship in Egypt for centuries.
In Fragments from Fustat, Glimpses of a Cosmopolitan Old Cairo - AramcoWorld. Either a lamp or a goblet dating back more than 1,200 years, this restored, delicately banded piece of glassware was discovered by archeologist George Scanlon, lower right, who excavated in Fustat from 1964 to 1980.
The general picture provided by the archaeology is that Old Cairo shared in the fortunes of al-Fustat—early organic growth, large formal building projects between the ninth and the eleventh centuries, followed by abandonment and robbing at the end of this period.
