At a glance
- Era
- The Rashidun Caliphate
- Region
- Egypt & Nile
- Identifiers
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Overview
A great mosque in the city of Fustat, built by Amr ibn al-As on the site of his tent and the land around it. 1
The site of his tent is where the mihrab and the minbar are. About eighty of the companions prayed in it. 1
The mosque and the city in al-Maqrizi
Al-Maqrizi says that when Amr ibn al-As camped beside the fortress he laid out the mosque known as the Old Mosque, also called the Mosque of Amr ibn al-As, and the Arab tribes settled around it, so that a city known as Fustat came into being. 2
After the conquest, the Nile's waters withdrew for some years from the land opposite the fortress and the Old Mosque. The Muslims tethered their animals there, and then laid out houses on it little by little. 2
In another place al-Maqrizi says that the Muslims laid out Fustat around the mosque of Amr ibn al-As and the Qasr al-Sham'. 3
Connections
- Located in
- Al-Fustat
People and things also explored
Dar al-Anmat· Ending the Ubaydid Khutba and Restoring the Abbasid Khutba in Egypt· Amr's Dismissal and Ibn Abi Sarh's Sole Charge of Egypt· Conquest of Egypt and Alexandria· Fall of the Tulunid state and burning of al-Qata'i' (292 AH)· The Unleashing of Egypt's Slaves in al-Fustat, 411· The Burning of al-Fustat, the Vizierate of Shirkuh, then Salah al-Din· The Milch-Camel Exchange: Amr's and Ibn Abi Sarh's Kharaj
Sources
- Masalik al-absar fi mamalik al-amsar — al-Umari (1924 printing) , p. 209
- Al-Maqrizi, al-Mawaiz wa-l-i'tibar bi-dhikr al-khitat wa-l-athar (al-Khitat al-Maqriziyya), ed. Muhammad Zaynhum and Madiha al-Sharqawi (Cairo: Maktabat Madbuli, 1998) , p.831
- Al-Maqrizi, al-Mawaiz wa-l-i'tibar bi-dhikr al-khitat wa-l-athar (al-Khitat al-Maqriziyya), ed. Muhammad Zaynhum and Madiha al-Sharqawi (Cairo: Maktabat Madbuli, 1998) , p.990
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islam.museum contributors. “the Mosque of Amr ibn al-As”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/building/masjid-amr-fustat/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-24.