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Al-Mu'izz Street, the Glossary

Al-Muizz li-Din Allah al-Fatimi Street (شارع المعز لدين الله الفاطمي), or al-Muizz Street for short, is a major north-to-south street in the walled city of historic Cairo, Egypt.^[1]

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Streets in Cairo
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Al-Ashraf Mosque

The Al-Ashraf Mosque or the Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay (مسجد ومدرسة الأشرف برسباي) is a historical complex of mosque and madrasa located in Cairo, Egypt. Al-Mu'izz Street and al-Ashraf Mosque are medieval Cairo.

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Al-Azhar Mosque

Al-Azhar Mosque (lit, Gāmiʿ el-ʾazhar), known in Egypt simply as al-Azhar, is a mosque in Cairo, Egypt in the historic Islamic core of the city. Al-Mu'izz Street and al-Azhar Mosque are medieval Cairo.

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Al-Azhar University

The Al-Azhar University (1) is a public university in Cairo, Egypt. Al-Mu'izz Street and al-Azhar University are medieval Cairo and Muizz Street.

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Al-Hakim Mosque

The al-Hakim Mosque (translit), also known as al-Anwar (lit), is a historic mosque in Cairo, Egypt. Al-Mu'izz Street and al-Hakim Mosque are medieval Cairo and Muizz Street.

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Al-Hussein Mosque

The al-Hussein Mosque or al-Husayn Mosque, also known as the Mosque of al-Imam al-Husayn (مسجد الإمامٱلحُسين) and the Mosque of Sayyidna al-Husayn, is a mosque and mausoleum of Husayn ibn Ali, originally built in 1154, and then later reconstructed in 1874. Al-Mu'izz Street and al-Hussein Mosque are medieval Cairo.

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Al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah

Abu Tamim Ma'ad al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah (Glorifier of the Religion of God; 26 September 932 – 19 December 975) was the fourth Fatimid caliph and the 14th Ismaili imam, reigning from 953 to 975.

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Al-Salih Tala'i Mosque

The Mosque of al-Salih Tala'i (مسجد الصالح طلائع) is a late Fatimid-era mosque built by the vizier Tala'i ibn Ruzzik in 1160. Al-Mu'izz Street and al-Salih Tala'i Mosque are medieval Cairo and Muizz Street.

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Aqmar Mosque

The Aqmar Mosque, was built in Cairo, Egypt, as a neighborhood mosque by the Fatimid vizier al-Ma'mun al-Bata'ihi in 1125-6 CE (519 Hijri). Al-Mu'izz Street and Aqmar Mosque are medieval Cairo and Muizz Street.

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Ayyubid dynasty

The Ayyubid dynasty (الأيوبيون; Eyûbiyan), also known as the Ayyubid Sultanate, was the founding dynasty of the medieval Sultanate of Egypt established by Saladin in 1171, following his abolition of the Fatimid Caliphate of Egypt. Al-Mu'izz Street and Ayyubid dynasty are medieval Cairo.

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Bab al-Futuh

Bab al-Futuh (Conquest Gate) is one of three remaining gates in the city wall of the old city of Cairo, Egypt. Al-Mu'izz Street and Bab al-Futuh are medieval Cairo and Muizz Street.

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Bab Zuweila

Bab Zuweila or Bab Zuwayla (باب زويلة) is one of three remaining gates in the city wall of the Old City of Cairo, the capital of Egypt. Al-Mu'izz Street and Bab Zuweila are medieval Cairo, Muizz Street and Tourist attractions in Cairo.

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Badr al-Jamali

Abū'l-Najm Badr ibn ʿAbdallāh al-Jamālī al-Mustanṣirī, better known as Badr al-Jamali (بدر الجمالى), was a vizier and prominent statesman for the Fatimid Caliphate under Caliph al-Mustansir.

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Bayn al-Qasrayn

Bayn al-Qasrayn is an area located along al-Mu'izz Street in the center of medieval Islamic Cairo, within present day Cairo, Egypt. Al-Mu'izz Street and Bayn al-Qasrayn are medieval Cairo.

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Bayt al-Suhaymi

Bayt al-Suhaymi ("House of Suhaymi") is a traditional Egyptian Islamic themed house and museum in Cairo, Egypt. Al-Mu'izz Street and Bayt al-Suhaymi are medieval Cairo.

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Bazaar

A bazaar or souk is a marketplace consisting of multiple small stalls or shops, especially in the Middle East, the Balkans, North Africa and South Asia.

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Beshtak Palace

The Beshtak Palace or Qasr Bashtak ("Palace of Bashtak") is a historic palace and museum in Cairo, Egypt, built in the 14th century by the Mamluk amir Sayf al-Din Bashtak al-Nasiri. Al-Mu'izz Street and Beshtak Palace are medieval Cairo and Muizz Street.

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Cairo

Cairo (al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, and is the country's largest city, being home to more than 10 million people.

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Cairo Citadel

The Citadel of Cairo or Citadel of Saladin (Qalaʿat Salāḥ ad-Dīn) is a medieval Islamic-era fortification in Cairo, Egypt, built by Salah ad-Din (Saladin) and further developed by subsequent Egyptian rulers. Al-Mu'izz Street and Cairo Citadel are medieval Cairo, Open-air museums in Egypt and Tourist attractions in Cairo.

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Caliphate

A caliphate or khilāfah (خِلَافَةْ) is a monarchical form of government (initially elective, later absolute) that originated in the 7th century Arabia, whose political identity is based on a claim of succession to the Islamic State of Muhammad and the identification of a monarch called caliph (خَلِيفَةْ) as his heir and successor.

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City of the Dead (Cairo)

The City of the Dead, or Cairo Necropolis, also referred to as the Qarafa (al-Qarafa; locally pronounced as al-'arafa), is a series of vast Islamic-era necropolises and cemeteries in Cairo, Egypt. Al-Mu'izz Street and City of the Dead (Cairo) are medieval Cairo.

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Common Era

Common Era (CE) and Before the Common Era (BCE) are year notations for the Gregorian calendar (and its predecessor, the Julian calendar), the world's most widely used calendar era.

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Downtown Cairo

Downtown Cairo (وسط البلد, "middle of town") is the colloquial name given to the 19th-century western expansion of Egypt's capital Cairo, between the historic medieval Cairo, and the Nile, which became the commercial center of the city during the 20th century.

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Egypt

Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.

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Fatimid Caliphate

The Fatimid Caliphate or Fatimid Empire (al-Khilāfa al-Fāṭimiyya) was a caliphate extant from the tenth to the twelfth centuries CE under the rule of the Fatimids, an Isma'ili Shia dynasty.

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Fatimid Great Palaces

The Great Palaces of the Fatimid Caliphs (or Great Fatimid Palaces, among other name variants) were a vast and lavish palace complex built in the late 10th century in Cairo, Egypt, to house the Fatimid caliphs, their households, and the administration of their state.

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Fustat

Fustat (translit), also Fostat, was the first capital of Egypt under Muslim rule, and the historical centre of modern Cairo.

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Hammam of Sultan Inal

The Hammam of Sultan Inal is a historic hammam (public bathhouse) in Cairo, Egypt. Al-Mu'izz Street and hammam of Sultan Inal are medieval Cairo and Muizz Street.

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Islamic Cairo

Islamic Cairo (Al-Mu'izz's Cairo), or Medieval Cairo, officially Historic Cairo (القاهرة التاريخية al-Qāhira tārīkhiyya), refers mostly to the areas of Cairo, Egypt, that were built from the Muslim conquest in 641 CE until the city's modern expansion in the 19th century during Khedive Ismail's rule, namely: the central parts within the old walled city, the historic cemeteries, the area around the Citadel of Cairo, parts of Bulaq, and Old Cairo which dates back to Roman times and includes major Coptic Christian monuments. Al-Mu'izz Street and Islamic Cairo are medieval Cairo and Open-air museums in Egypt.

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Jawhar (general)

Al-Qaid Jawhar ibn Abdallah (Jawhar ibn ʿAbd Allāh, better known as Jawhar al Siqilli, al-Qaid al-Siqilli, "The Sicilian General", or al-Saqlabi, "The Slav"; born in the Byzantine empire and died 28 April 992) was a Shia Muslim Fatimid general who led the conquest of Maghreb, and subsequently the conquest of Egypt, for the 4th Fatimid Imam-Caliph al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah.

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Khan el-Khalili

Khan el-Khalili (خان الخليلي) is a famous bazaar and souq (or souk) in the historic center of Cairo, Egypt. Al-Mu'izz Street and Khan el-Khalili are medieval Cairo, Muizz Street and Tourist attractions in Cairo.

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Khayamiya

Khayamiya (خيّامية khayyāmiyah) is a decorative Egyptian art appliqué textile, that dates back to as far as Ancient Egypt.

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Kutama

The Kutama (Berber: Ikutamen; كتامة) were a Berber tribe in northern Algeria classified among the Berber confederation of the Bavares.

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Madrasa of al-Nasir Muhammad

The Madrasa of al-Nasir Muhammad is a madrasa and mausoleum located in the Bayn al-Qasrayn area of al-Muizz street in Cairo, Egypt. Al-Mu'izz Street and madrasa of al-Nasir Muhammad are medieval Cairo.

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Mamluk Sultanate

The Mamluk Sultanate (translit), also known as Mamluk Egypt or the Mamluk Empire, was a state that ruled Egypt, the Levant and the Hejaz from the mid-13th to early 16th centuries.

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Mosque of Sultan al-Muayyad

The Mosque of Sultan al-Mu'ayyad (مسجد السلطان المؤيد) is a Mosque in Cairo, Egypt next to Bab Zuwayla built under the rule of sultan Al-Mu'ayyad Sayf ad-Din Shaykh from whom it takes its name, "Al-Mu'ayyad", meaning The Supporter in Arabic language. Al-Mu'izz Street and Mosque of Sultan al-Muayyad are medieval Cairo and Muizz Street.

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Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Barquq

Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Barquq or Mosque-Madrasa-Khanqah of Az-Zaher Barquq (مسجد ومدرسة وخانقاه الظاهر برقوق) is a religious complex in Islamic Cairo, the historic medieval district of Cairo, Egypt. Al-Mu'izz Street and Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Barquq are medieval Cairo and Muizz Street.

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Mosque-Sabil of Sulayman Agha al-Silahdar

Mosque-Sabil of Sulayman Agha al-Silahdar or Mosque-Sabil-Kuttab of Sulayman Agha al-Silahdar (مسجد وسبيل سليمان أغا السلحدار) is a complex of mosque, sabil and kuttab established during the era of Muhammad Ali Pasha in Islamic Cairo, the historic medieval district of Cairo, Egypt. Al-Mu'izz Street and mosque-Sabil of Sulayman Agha al-Silahdar are medieval Cairo.

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Muhammad Ali of Egypt

Muhammad Ali (4 March 1769 – 2 August 1849) was an Ottoman Albanian governor and military commander who was the de facto ruler of Egypt from 1805 to 1848, considered the founder of modern Egypt.

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Qalawun complex

The Qalawun complex (مجمع قلاون) is a massive pious complex in Cairo, Egypt, built by Sultan al-Mansur Qalawun from 1284 to 1285. Al-Mu'izz Street and Qalawun complex are medieval Cairo, Muizz Street and Tourist attractions in Cairo.

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Qasaba of Radwan Bey

The Qasaba of Radwan Bey is a souq and covered market in Cairo, Egypt, located directly south of the Bab Zuweila gate and just outside the historic walled city. Al-Mu'izz Street and Qasaba of Radwan Bey are medieval Cairo.

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Sabil-Kuttab of Abd al-Rahman Katkhuda

Sabil-Kuttab of Abd al-Rahman Katkhuda (سبيل وكتاب عبدالرحمن كتخدا) is a historic monument in the historic district of Cairo, Egypt. Al-Mu'izz Street and Sabil-Kuttab of Abd al-Rahman Katkhuda are medieval Cairo and Muizz Street.

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Saladin

Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub (– 4 March 1193), commonly known as Saladin, was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty.

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Salihiyya Madrasa

The Salihiyya Madrasa (or Madrasa as-Salihiyya), also called the Madrasa and Mausoleum of as-Salih Najm ad-Din Ayyub is a historic madrasa and mausoleum complex in Cairo, Egypt. Al-Mu'izz Street and Salihiyya Madrasa are medieval Cairo.

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Shia Islam

Shia Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam.

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Sultan al-Ghuri Complex

The Sultan al-Ghuri Complex or Funerary complex of Sultan al-Ghuri, also known as al-Ghuriya, is a monumental Islamic religious and funerary complex built by the Mamluk sultan Qansuh al-Ghuri between 1503 and 1505 CE. Al-Mu'izz Street and sultan al-Ghuri Complex are medieval Cairo and Tourist attractions in Cairo.

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Sunni Islam

Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims, and simultaneously the largest religious denomination in the world.

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Vizier

A vizier (wazīr; vazīr) is a high-ranking political advisor or minister in the Near East.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Mu'izz_Street

Also known as Al-muizz street, Muizz Street, Shariʢa al-Muizz li-Deen Illah.

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Muizz Street

Open-air museums in Egypt

Saliba Street

Streets in Cairo

Tourist attractions in Cairo

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