At a glance
- Era
- The Gunpowder Empires
- Region
- Egypt & Nile
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
In time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Summary
Before the entry
The chronicler Salahsur — companion of Selim and author of the manuscript Fath-nameh Diyar al-Arab — recounts that Selim wept long in the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem and prayed the prayer of need that God open Egypt to him 1.
The settlement
Selim appointed Khayr Bak over Egypt and Janbirdi al-Ghazali over Damascus 1; per Ibn al-Imad he kept the four judges and the endowments as they were, and Tuman Bay was hanged at Bab Zuwayla and buried at the Nawti cemetery 3.
Connections
- Had participant
- السلطان سليم شاه بن عثمان
- Occurred at
- Cairo
People and things also explored
Al-Azhar Mosque· The Dar al-Hikma of Cairo· Algiers enters Ottoman sovereignty (1519)· The battle of Chaldiran and the entry into Tabriz· Battle of Ridaniyya and the fall of the Mamluk state· Baybars takes the sultanate, 658 AH· death of Asad al-Dīn Shīrkūh — Saladin chosen vizier in his place· The great earthquake of Egypt, 608 AH
Sources
- al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001) , p. 188
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 531
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 531, 559-561
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Capture of Cairo”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/capture-of-cairo-1517/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.