The French occupation was short lived and with the rise of Muhammad ‘Ali, starting 1805, serious steps were taken to modernise Egypt in general and the city of Cairo with…

The Ottomans entered Egypt in 932/1517 and with the execution of the Mamluk sultan Tuman Bay came the demise of the Mamluk empire and the transformation of Egypt into an…

While the Fatimids were responsible for the shift in state policy from sporadic interest in the cemetery to the conscious manipulation of it into a setting for political and religious…

The Ayyubids ruled Egypt for only eight decades, yet they managed to put in place a number of urban measures that were decisive in shaping the face of Cairo for…

The history of this section of the cemetery cannot be told without reference to the history of the cemetery as a whole, which in turn, is inextricably linked to the…