House of Mahmud al-Shabshiri

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Bāb Zuwaylah

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Bab Zuwayla or Bab Zuweila is one of three remaining gates in the city walls of historic Cairo in Egypt. It was also known as Bawabat al-Mitwali or Bab al-Mitwali. Bāb Zuwaylah is situated 140 metres west of House of Mahmud al-Shabshiri.

Al-Azhar Mosque

Mosque

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Al-Azhar Mosque, known in Egypt simply as al-Azhar, is a mosque in the historic Islamic core of the city of Cairo, Egypt. Commissioned as the new capital of the Fatimid Caliphate in 970 CE, it was the first mosque established in a city that eventually earned the nickname "the City of a Thousand Minarets". Al-Azhar Mosque is situated 440 metres northeast of House of Mahmud al-Shabshiri.

jāmi‘ al-Muʼayyad Shaykh

Mosque

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The Mosque of Sultan al-Mu'ayyad, is a mosque on al-Mu'izz Street, adjacent to Bab Zuwayla, in Islamic Cairo, Egypt. The complex was built between 1415 and 1421, under the rule of the Mamluk sultan al-Mu'ayyad Shaykh, from whom it takes its name. jāmi‘ al-Muʼayyad Shaykh is situated 160 metres west of House of Mahmud al-Shabshiri.

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Islamic Cairo

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Islamic Cairo is the name commonly given to the core of medieval Cairo, a part of the city remarkably different from the modern Downtown district and the suburbs to the west.

Abdin

Suburb

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Abdin is a suburb.

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