After Muhammad ibn Tughj was appointed governor of the area corresponding to this present-day country in 935, he founded the short-lived Ikhshidid dynasty, whose ruler Abu al-Misk Kafur patronized the poet al-Mutanabbi.
After Muhammad ibn Tughj was appointed governor of the area corresponding to this present-day country in 935, he founded the short-lived Ikhshidid dynasty, whose ruler Abu al-Misk Kafur patronized the poet al-Mutanabbi. The city of al-Qatta'i in this present-day country was the capital of the Tulunid dynasty, which swore nominal fealty to the Abbasid Caliphs. ‘Amr ibn al-‘As founded the garrison city of Fustat after the Islamic conquest of this country, though Fustat was replaced as capital after the 969 invasion of an Ismaili dynasty flying a solid green flag. That dynasty, which founded the Al- Azhar mosque in this present-day country, was the Fatimids. The Ayyubid dynasty founded by Saladin was also centered in, for 10 points, what country invaded by Napoleon in 1798?
After Muhammad ibn Tughj was appointed governor of the area corresponding to this present-day country in 935, he founded the short-lived Ikhshidid dynasty, whose ruler Abu al-Misk Kafur patronized the poet al-Mutanabbi.
{Egypt} (or {Misr})