Mosque of 'Amr ibn al-'As (Earliest Islamic building in Egypt

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• Amr ibn al-ʿĀṣ, Mosque ofʿ — ▪ mosque, Cairo, Egypt  earliest Islāmic building in Egypt, erected in 641 by ʿAmr ibn al ʿĀṣ, the leader of an invading Arab army. The mosque was built in Al Fusṭāṭ (Fusṭāṭ, Al ), a city that grew out of an Arab army encampment on the site of… …   Universalium

• Islamic arts — Visual, literary, and performing arts of the populations that adopted Islam from the 7th century. Islamic visual arts are decorative, colourful, and, in religious art, nonrepresentational; the characteristic Islamic decoration is the arabesque.… …   Universalium

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• History of Arab Egypt — During the initial Islamic invasion in 639 AD, Egypt was ruled at first by governors acting in the name of the Righteous Caliphs, and then the Ummayad Caliphs in Damascus but, in 747, the Ummayads were overthrown and the power of the Arabs slowly …   Wikipedia

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