The terms "Mosque of Banner Holders" and "Crown of Mosques" are nicknames for this city's Amr Ibn El-Aas Mosque, which was built by a general who captured this city, while an Abbasid governor of this city built the Ibn Tulun mosque. It is home to the Ben Ezra Synagogue, in whose storeroom 200,000 Hebrew manuscripts were discovered in the 19th century. This city was built on an earlier settlement named Fustat, and it was one of the cities occupied by the Ottomans after the Battle of Al-Ridaneah. This city's Qala Square is home to the Sultan Hassan Complex, which contains a mosque, madrasa, and mausoleum. One of the oldest universities in the world was founded at this city's Al-Azhar Mosque. With an Arabic name meaning "the subduer", it is nicknamed the "City of One Thousand Minarets", and it was the capital of such rulers as Sultan Qutuz, Sultan Baybars, and the Shi'te Caliphs of the Fatimid Empire. For ten points, name this capital city of Egypt.
The terms "Mosque of Banner Holders" and "Crown of Mosques" are nicknames for this city's Amr Ibn El-Aas Mosque, which was built by a general who captured this city, while an Abbasid governor of this city built the Ibn Tulun mosque. It is home to the Ben Ezra Synagogue, in whose storeroom 200,000 Hebrew manuscripts were discovered in the 19th century. This city was built on an earlier settlement named Fustat, and it was one of the cities occupied by the Ottomans after the Battle of Al-Ridaneah. This city's Qala Square is home to the Sultan Hassan Complex, which contains a mosque, madrasa, and mausoleum. One of the oldest universities in the world was founded at this city's Al-Azhar Mosque. With an Arabic name meaning "the subduer", it is nicknamed the "City of One Thousand Minarets", and it was the capital of such rulers as Sultan Qutuz, Sultan Baybars, and the Shi'te Caliphs of the Fatimid Empire. For ten points, name this capital city of Egypt.
The terms "Mosque of Banner Holders" and "Crown of Mosques" are nicknames for this city's Amr Ibn El-Aas Mosque, which was built by a general who captured this city, while an Abbasid governor of this city built the Ibn Tulun mosque.
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