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ʿUmāra Ibn Wathīma
Abū Rifāʿa ʿUmāra ibn Wathīma ibn Mūsā ibn al-Furāt al-Fārisī d. was a Muslim historian from Egypt. Born in Fusṭāṭ, he was a son of the historian and silk trader Wathīma ibn Mūsā, a native of Fasā in Persia. The year of his birth is unknown, but his father died in 851. Works ʿUmāra wrote at least two works in Arabic. His only surviving work is what was, before the discovery of Abū Ḥudhayfa Isḥāq ibn Bishr Qurashī's ''Mubtadaʾ al-dunyā wa-qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ'', thought to be the oldest surviving book of the ''Qisas al-Anbiya, qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ'' genre. Entitled ''Kitāb badʾ al-khalq wa-qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ'' ('Book of the Beginnings of Creation and the Stories of the Prophets'), it is a collection of didactic stories of those considered Prophets and messengers in Islam, prophets in Islam. It is the earliest source to cite the enigmatic Abu al-Hasan Bakri, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Bakrī. It was itself never widely cited. Of its original two volume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fusṭāṭ
Fustat (), also Fostat, was the first List of historical capitals of Egypt, capital of Egypt under Muslim rule, though it has been integrated into Cairo. It was built adjacent to what is now known as Old Cairo by the Rashidun Caliphate, Rashidun Muslim general 'Amr ibn al-'As immediately after the Muslim conquest of Egypt in AD 641, and featured the Mosque of Amr, the first mosque built in Egypt. The city reached its peak in the 12th century, with a population of approximately 200,000.Williams, p. 37 It was the centre of administrative power in Egypt, until it was ordered burnt in 1168 by its own vizier, Shawar, to keep its wealth out of the hands of the invading Crusades, Crusaders. The remains of the city were eventually absorbed by nearby Cairo, which had been built to the north of Fustat in 969 when the Fatimid Caliphate, Fatimids conquered the region and created a new city as a royal enclosure for the Caliph. The area fell into disrepair for hundreds of years and was used as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
