- Dead, or
Cairo Necropolis, also
referred to as the
Qarafa (Arabic: القرافة, romanized: al-
Qarafa;
locally pronounced as al-'arafa), is a
series of vast...
- of
building projects,
mainly in the
Qarafa area,
ordering construction of the
second mosque in Cairo, Jami al-
Qarafa Mosque, in 975.
Similar to the first...
- The Jami al-
Qarafa Mosque or
Qarafa Mosque, was the
second major mosque built by the
Fatimid dynasty in
their new
capital of
Cairo after their conquest...
- his
entourage gave and
spent freely while in Cairo. Musa sta**** in the
Qarafa district of
Cairo and
befriended its governor, ibn Amir Hajib, who learned...
- time,
taught at the
university of Fes, Al-Qarawiyyin. He was
buried in
Qarafa (Egypt). He is not to be
confused with
Mohammed al-Abdari al-Hihi (full...
- and a new gate was
opened in the wall,
called Bab Sa****a
Aisha or Bab al-
Qarafa.[full
citation needed] In 1762, a new
mosque was
attached to the shrine...
- of the Jami al-
Qarafa Mosque with her daughter, Sitt al-Malik. As
Cortese and
Calinedri argue, this
inauguration of the Jami al-
Qarafa Mosque marked the...
- monuments, as it encomp****es the
southern portion of
Historic Cairo and of the
Qarafa cemetery (City of the Dead). The
district is
named after the
Fatimid caliph...
- al-Ahmar El Marg
Helwan M****arah 15th of May
Mokattam City of the Dead (al-
Qarafa)
Manshiyat Naser Nasr City El
Qobbah Rhoda Island El
Manial El Sakkakini...
- (or
Sebaa Valley), a
section of the
larger historic necropolis called al-
Qarafa (or City of the Dead) in Cairo, Egypt. It is
built to
commemorate Sayyida...
