Cairo in the Middle Ages

The atlas holds 7 people and 16 moments here, from 805 to 1406. The most recorded lives are Ibn Khaldun, Ibn al-Haytham and Nasir Khusraw.

Abu Nuwas
from 805 to 807
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Abū Nuwās al-Ḥasan ibn Hānī al-Ḥakamī was a classical Arabic poet. Sources document his birth in the Ahvaz area, childhood and study in Basra and…
Ibn al-Haytham
from 1011 to 1040
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Ibn al-Haytham, also known in Latin as Alhazen, was an Iraqi-born mathematician, astronomer, and physicist whose documented life is chiefly…
Ibn Battuta
from 1326 to 1348
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Maghrebi Muslim jurist, traveller, explorer, and author from Tangier. Between 1325 and 1354 he journeyed through North and East Africa, the Middle…
Ibn Khaldun
from 1383 to 1406
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Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406) was a Tunis-born historian, jurist, political official, teacher, and author of the Muqaddimah.…
Mansa Musa
in 1324
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Mansa Musa (c. 1280–c. 1337), also known as Musa I of Mali, was mansa of the Mali Empire. The securely documented movements of his life are…
Nasir Khusraw
from 1047 to 1050
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Persian poet, philosopher, traveler, and Isma'ili missionary. Born at Qubadiyan, he served as a financial administrator in Marw before leaving in…
Saladin
in 1167
1 moment here
Kurdish military commander, founder of the Ayyubid dynasty, and sultan of Egypt and Syria. Born at Tikrit, Saladin rose through the Zengid…