The Druze revere aruler from this city whose rampages in Jerusalem destroyed the Holy Sepulchre, the "Mad Caliph"al-Hakim.
A scientific team led by Fourier claimed that a shocking one-third of this city's peasants were blindin the early 1800s. Al-Adid and his vizier Shawar saved this city from Shirkuh by allying withAmalric I, but burned its old portion of al-Fustat in 1168 to deny it to crusaders. The Druze revere aruler from this city whose rampages in Jerusalem destroyed the Holy Sepulchre, the "Mad Caliph"al-Hakim. Qutuz, Aybak, and Baibars led a (*) slave dynasty in this city after overthrowing Saladin'sAyyubid Caliphate. This city was the capital of an Albanian-born Ottoman who declared himself Khediveafter its Mamluk Sultanate was defeated by Napoleon's invasion. Muhammad Ali and Farouk I ruled from,for 10 points, what home of Tahrir Square and capital of Egypt?
A scientific team led by Fourier claimed that a shocking one-third of this city's peasants were blindin the early 1800s.
Cairo, Egypt [or al-Qahira]