The Mosques of Egypt

by 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 today. Since then, governors, caliphs, sultans, amirs, beys, pashas, among others, have built mosques, madrasas, and mausoleums throughout Egypt in a changing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9774167325
• ISBN13: 9789774167324
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 6.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 10.2" x 12.2"