758 AH
Only years after the Black Death, Sultan Hasan begins a vast mosque and college below the Cairo citadel. Mamluk Cairo is the greatest city of the Muslim world.
How it touches Islam Al-Azhar and Cairo's colleges drew students from Mali to Java, and scholars such as Ibn Hajar taught here.
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Borders come from Cliopatria, the open map of the Seshat Global History Databank (CC BY 4.0), and are approximate. Dates before 1000 BCE are estimates, and for the earliest prophets the Quran gives the order of events but not their years. Sources: the Quran, Sahih al-Bukhari and Muslim, the Seerah of Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Kathir's al-Bidaya wan-Nihaya, and standard histories. See also the villains of Islamic history, from Iblis to the Dajjal, and the library of people, nations, empires and places.
