Sayyidah Zainab District, the Glossary
Sayyidah Zainab is one of the old traditional districts of Cairo, Egypt.[1]
Table of Contents
54 relations: Abdeen Palace, Adel Emam, Ahmad ibn Tulun, Al-Nasir Muhammad, Ali, Amr ibn al-As, Amr ibn al-As Mosque, Baybars, Bernard Lewis, Bridge, Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Charles Pellat, Children's Cancer Hospital Egypt, Egypt, Egyptian Medical Syndicate, Eid al-Adha, Farouk El-Fishawy, Fatima, Garden City, Cairo, Hamada Emam, Hasan ibn Ali, Hijri year, Husayn ibn Ali, Isma'il Pasha of Egypt, Joseph Schacht, Khadija bint Khuwaylid, Khalij (Cairo), Mamluk Sultanate, Mausoleum of Saad Zaghloul, Mokattam, Mosque of Ibn Tulun, Muhammad, Nour El-Sherif, OCLC, Old Cairo, Omar Khairat, Parliament of Egypt, Qasr El Eyni Hospital, Ramadan, Saad Zaghloul, Sayed Mekawy, Sayyida Nafisa, Sayyidah Zainab Mosque, Cairo, Sha'ban, Tahera Qutbuddin, Tahrir Square, Tulunids, Victor Louis Ménage, Wayback Machine, ... Expand index (4 more) »
- History of Cairo
Abdeen Palace
Abdeen District is the home of Abdeen Palace (قصر عابدين), a 19th-century Cairo palace built by Khedive Ismail and served as the Egyptian royal household's primary official residence from 1874 until the July Revolution in 1952.
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Adel Emam
Adel Emam (عادل إمام; born 17 May 1940) is an Egyptian film, television, and stage actor.
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Ahmad ibn Tulun
Ahmad ibn Tulun (translit; c. 20 September 835 – 10 May 884) was the founder of the Tulunid dynasty that ruled Egypt and Syria between 868 and 905.
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Al-Nasir Muhammad
Al-Malik an-Nasir Nasir ad-Din Muhammad ibn Qalawun (الملك الناصر ناصر الدين محمد بن قلاوون), commonly known as an-Nasir Muhammad (الناصر محمد), or by his kunya: Abu al-Ma'ali (أبو المعالي) or as Ibn Qalawun (1285–1341) was the ninth Mamluk sultan of the Bahri dynasty who ruled Egypt between 1293–1294, 1299–1309, and 1310 until his death in 1341.
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Ali
Ali ibn Abi Talib (translit) was the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and was the fourth Rashidun caliph who ruled from 656 to 661, as well as the first Shia imam.
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Amr ibn al-As
Amr ibn al-As ibn Wa'il al-Sahmi (translit; 664) was an Arab commander and companion of Muhammad who led the Muslim conquest of Egypt and served as its governor in 640–646 and 658–664. The son of a wealthy Qurayshite, Amr embraced Islam in and was assigned important roles in the nascent Muslim community by the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
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Amr ibn al-As Mosque
The Amr ibn al-As Mosque (translit) is a mosque in Cairo, Egypt.
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Baybars
Al-Malik al-Zahir Rukn al-Din Baybars al-Bunduqdari (الملك الظاهر ركن الدين بيبرس البندقداري; 1223/1228 – 1 July 1277), commonly known as Baibars or Baybars and nicknamed Abu al-Futuh (أبو الفتوح), was the fourth Mamluk sultan of Egypt and Syria, of Turkic Kipchak origin, in the Bahri dynasty, succeeding Qutuz.
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Bernard Lewis
Bernard Lewis, (31 May 1916 – 19 May 2018) was a British American historian specialized in Oriental studies.
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Bridge
A bridge is a structure built to span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or railway) without blocking the path underneath.
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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 Governorate
Cairo Governorate (محافظة القاهرة) is one of the 27 governorates of Egypt.
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Charles Pellat
Charles Pellat (28 September 1914, in Souk Ahras – 28 October 1992, in Bourg-la-Reine) was a French Algerian academic, historian, translator, and scholar of Oriental studies, specialized in Arab studies and Islamic studies.
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Children's Cancer Hospital Egypt
Children's Cancer Hospital Egypt, also known as 57357 hospital after the hospital's widely published bank account number for donations, is a hospital in Cairo is a hospital specialising in children's cancer.
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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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Egyptian Medical Syndicate
The Egyptian Medical Syndicate is a medical association with more than 230,000 registered members.
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Eid al-Adha
Eid al-Adha is the second of the two main holidays in Islam alongside Eid al-Fitr.
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Farouk El-Fishawy
Farouk El-Fishawy (فاروق الفيشاوي; 5 February 1952 – 25 July 2019) was an Egyptian film and television actor.
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Fatima
Fatima bint Muhammad (Fāṭima bint Muḥammad; 605/15–632 CE), commonly known as Fatima al-Zahra' (Fāṭima al-Zahrāʾ), was the daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his wife Khadija.
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Garden City, Cairo
Garden City (جاردن سيتي) is an early-20th-century real estate development loosely based on the English garden city movement, and is today a mixed residential and administrative quarter in qism Qasr al-Nil in the West District of Cairo, Egypt.
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Hamada Emam
Mohamed Yehia El Horria Emam (محمد يحيى الحرية إمام‎; 28 November 1943 – 9 January 2016), known as Hamada Emam (حمادة إمام.), was the Vice President of the Egyptian Football Association (EFA) and a former Egyptian football player.
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Hasan ibn Ali
Hasan ibn Ali (translit; 2 April 670) was an Alid political and religious leader.
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Hijri year
The Hijri year (سَنة هِجْريّة) or era (التقويمالهجري at-taqwīm al-hijrī) is the era used in the Islamic lunar calendar.
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Husayn ibn Ali
Imam Husayn ibn Ali (translit; 11 January 626 – 10 October 680) was a social, political and religious leader.
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Isma'il Pasha of Egypt
Isma'il Pasha (إسماعيل باشا; 12 January 1830 – 2 March 1895), also known as 'Ismail the Magnificent, was the Khedive of Egypt and ruler of Sudan from 1863 to 1879, when he was removed at the behest of Great Britain and France.
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Joseph Schacht
Joseph Franz Schacht (15 March 1902 – 1 August 1969) was a British-German professor of Arabic and Islam at Columbia University in New York.
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Khadija bint Khuwaylid
Khadijah bint Khuwaylid (Khadīja bint Khuwaylid, 554 – November 619) was the first wife and the first follower of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
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Khalij (Cairo)
The Khalij (or al-khalīg in Egyptian pronunciation), also known as the Khalij al-Misri or Khalij al-Masri, was a canal in Cairo, Egypt.
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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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Mausoleum of Saad Zaghloul
The Saad Zaghloul Mausoleum (ضريح سَعد زَغلول) was built following the death of Egyptian prime minister Saad Zaghloul, and was completed by architect Mustafa Fahmy in 1936.
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Mokattam
The Mokattam (المقطم, also spelled Muqattam), also known as the Mukattam Mountain or Hills, is the name of an Eastern Desert plateau as well as the district built over it in the Southern Area of Cairo, Egypt.
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Mosque of Ibn Tulun
The Mosque of Ibn Tulun (Masjid Ibn Ṭūlūn) is located in Cairo, Egypt.
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Muhammad
Muhammad (570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam.
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Nour El-Sherif
Nour El-Sherif (نور الشريف; 28 April 1946 – 11 August 2015), born Mohamad Geber Mohamad Abd Allah (محمد جابر محمد عبد الله) was a prominent Egyptian actor.
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OCLC
OCLC, Inc., doing business as OCLC, See also: is an American nonprofit cooperative organization "that provides shared technology services, original research, and community programs for its membership and the library community at large".
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Old Cairo
Old Cairo (Egyptian pronunciation: Maṣr El-ʾAdīma) is a historic area in Cairo, Egypt, which includes the site of a Roman-era fortress, the Christian settlement of Coptic Cairo, and the Muslim-era settlements pre-dating the founding of Cairo proper in 969 AD. Sayyidah Zainab District and Old Cairo are history of Cairo.
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Omar Khairat
Omar Khairat (born November 11, 1948) (عمر خيرت) is an Egyptian musician.
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Parliament of Egypt
The Parliament of Egypt is the bicameral legislature of the Arab Republic of Egypt.
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Qasr El Eyni Hospital
Kasr AL Ainy Hospital (مستشفى قصر العيني) is a research and teaching hospital in Cairo, Egypt.
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Ramadan
Ramadan (Ramaḍān; also spelled Ramazan, Ramzan, Ramadhan, or Ramathan) is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting (sawm), prayer (salah), reflection, and community.
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Saad Zaghloul
Saad Zaghloul Pasha (سعد زغلول /; also Sa'd Zaghloul Pasha ibn Ibrahim) (July 1857 – 23 August 1927) was an Egyptian revolutionary and statesman.
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Sayed Mekawy
Sayed Mekawy (Egyptian Arabic: سيد مكاوي;May 8, 1927 – April 21, 1997) was an Egyptian singer and composer, popular in Egypt and throughout the Arabic speaking world.
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Sayyida Nafisa
Sayyida Nafisa (d. 208 AH / 830 CE), the full name As-Sayyidah Nafīsah bint Amīr al-Muʾminīn Al-Ḥasan al-Anwar ibn Zayd al-Ablaj ibn Al-Hasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib al-ʿAlawiyyah al-Ḥasaniyyah (ٱلسَّيِّدَة نَفِيْسَة بِنْت أَمِيْر ٱلْمُؤْمِنِيْن ٱلْحَسَن ابْن زَيْد ٱلْأَبْلَج ابْن ٱلْحَسَن ابْن عَلِي ابْن أَبِي طَالِب ٱلْعَلَوِيَّة ٱلْحَسَنِيَّة), was a female descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and a scholar and teacher of Islam.
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Sayyidah Zainab Mosque, Cairo
Al-Sayeda Zainab Mosque (Masjid As-Sayyidah Zaynab) is a historic mosque in Cairo, Egypt, and constitutes one of the most important and biggest mosques in the history of Egypt.
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Sha'ban
Shaʽban (شَعْبَان) is the eighth month of the Islamic calendar.
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Tahera Qutbuddin
Tahera Qutbuddin (born 1964, Mumbai) is the Abdulaziz Saud AlBabtain Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford.
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Tahrir Square
Tahrir Square (Maydān at-Taḥrīr,; "Liberation Square"), also known as Martyr Square, is a public town square in downtown Cairo, Egypt.
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Tulunids
The Tulunids, were a Mamluk dynasty of Turkic origin who were the first independent dynasty to rule Egypt, as well as much of Syria, since the Ptolemaic dynasty.
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Victor Louis Ménage
Victor Louis Ménage (15 April 1920 – 11 June 2015) was a British historian, Turkologist, with a particular focus on the early Ottoman Empire and an editor of the Encyclopaedia of Islam.
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Wayback Machine
The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web founded by the Internet Archive, an American nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California.
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Yahya Haqqi
Yahya Haqqi (Arabic:يحيى حقي.) (7 January 1905 – 9 December 1992) (or Yehia Hakki, Yehia Haqqi) was an Egyptian writer and novelist.
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Yusuf Sibai
Yusuf Mohamed Mohamed Abdel Wahab Al-Sibai (يوسف السباعي; June 17, 1917 – February 18, 1978) was an Egyptian writer, soldier, and politician.
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Zamalek SC
Zamalek Sporting Club (نادي الزمالك للألعاب الرياضية), commonly referred to as Zamalek, is an Egyptian sports club based in Giza, Egypt.
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Zaynab bint Ali
Zaynab bint Ali (زَيْنَب بِنْت عَلِيّ), was the eldest daughter of Fatima and Ali ibn Abi Talib.
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See also
History of Cairo
- 1754 Cairo earthquake
- 1974 EgyptAir Tupolev Tu-154 crash
- Al Musafir Khana Palace
- Al-Qata'i
- Baron Empain Palace
- Boulak Bridge
- Cairo Geniza
- City of the Dead (Cairo)
- Downtown Cairo
- Dubara Palace
- Egyptian Laws and Legislations Related to Conserving Cultural Heritage in Historic Cairo Area
- El Matareya, Cairo
- French post offices in Egypt
- Fustat
- Gezirah Palace
- Heliopolis (ancient Egypt)
- Heliopolis Palace
- Heliopolis style
- Heliopolis, Cairo
- Historic Cairo Restoration Project
- Islamic Cairo
- Khedivial Opera House
- List of conferences in Cairo
- List of governors of Cairo Governorate
- Luna Park, Cairo
- Maadi
- Medieval Cairo
- Old Cairo
- Residential architecture in Historic Cairo
- Sayyidah Zainab District
- Timeline of Cairo
- Wagh El Birket
- Zamalek stadium disaster