Idris II builds Fez

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1. Idris II builds Fez — 808 CE · 193 AH

   Idris ibn Idris built the city of Fez on the two banks of its wadi in 193/808, making it the capital of the Maghreb .

2. Fatima al-Fihri founds al-Qarawiyyin — 859 CE · 245 AH

   Fatima bint Muhammad al-Fihri endowed her fortune for the al-Qarawiyyin mosque at Fez, opened in 245/859 — the most famous mosque of learning in the Islamic West .

3. The great calamity of Fez, 813 AH — c. 1410 CE · 813 AH

   In 813 came the great calamity of Fez in the Maghreb, until the city was ruined .

4. Ottoman entry into Fez (964/1554) — 8 January 1554 CE · 3 Safar 961 AH

   After the Sa'di defeat near Badis, the fall of Taza, and the battle of Kadiyat al-Makhali before Fez, the Ottoman forces with Bu Hasun entered Fez on 3 Safar 961/8 January 1554 (the printed text reads 964); the imam preached in the Ottoman sultan's name and the Porte declared Morocco annexed. Salih Reis stayed four months before Fez later returned to the Sa'dis .

5. Capture of Fez — 1576 CE · 984 AH†

   Draft card for the capture of Fez in 1576, Abd al-Malik's Ottoman-backed entry into the Moroccan capital; its sources are not yet checked on the page.