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Tanta ( ' ) is a city in Egypt. Tanta had a population of 658,798 in 2018, making it the fifth most populous city in Egypt. Tanta is located between Cairo and Alexandria: north of Cairo and southeast of Alexandria. The capital of Gharbia Governorate, it is a center for the cotton-ginning industry. Tanta, a key city in Egypt, is both a major commercial hub and a significant cultural center. One of the major railway lines in Egypt passes through Tanta, enhancing its connectivity and importance. The city is best known for the Moulid of Ahmad al-Badawi, a week-long annual festival beginning on 11 October that attracts over a million visitors. This celebration honors Ahmad al-Badawi, a revered 13th-century Sufi figure who founded the Badawiyyah order and is buried in the Ahmad al-Badawi Mosque, the city’s most prominent religious site. Tanta is also famed for its sweet shops and snack industry, particularly for its roasted chickpeas and confections like Hab El-Aziz. In addit ...
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List Of Cities And Towns In Egypt
0-9 * 10th of Ramadan * 15th of May (city), 15th of May * 6th of October (city), 6th of October A * Abu El Matamir * Abu Hummus * Abu Tesht * Abu Tig * Akhmim * Al Khankah * Alexandria * Arish * Ashmoun * Aswan * Awsim * Ain Sokhna B * Badr, Egypt, Badr * Baltim * Banha * Basyoun * Biyala * Belqas * Beni Mazar * Beni Suef * Beni Ebeid * Biba, Egypt, Biba * Bilbeis * Birket El Sab * Borg El Arab * Borg El Burullus * Bush, Egypt, Bush C * Cairo D * Dahab * Dairut * Damanhur * Damietta * Dar El Salam * Daraw * Deir Mawas * Dekernes * Dendera * Desouk * Diarb Negm * Dishna, Egypt, Dishna E * Edfu * Edku * El Alamein * El Ayyat * El Badari, Egypt, El Badari * El Badrashein * El Bagour * El Balyana * El Basaliya * El Bayadiya * El Dabaa * El Delengat * El Fashn * El Gamaliya * El Ghanayem * El Hamool * El Hamam * El Hawamdeya * El Husseiniya * El Idwa * El Kanayat * El Mahalla El Kubra * El Mahmoudiyah * Ptolemais Hermiou, El Mansha * El Manzala * El Mara ...
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Ahmadi Mosque
Ahmadiyya, officially the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at (AMJ), is an Islamic messianic movement originating in British India in the late 19th century. It was founded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835–1908), who said he had been divinely appointed as both the Promised Mahdi (Guided One) and Messiah expected by Muslims to appear towards the end times and bring about, by peaceful means, the final triumph of Islam; as well as to embody, in this capacity, the expected eschatological figure of other major religious traditions. Adherents of the Ahmadiyya—a term adopted expressly in reference to Muhammad's alternative name '' Ahmad'' — are known as Ahmadi Muslims or simply Ahmadis. Ahmadi thought emphasizes the belief that Islam is the final dispensation for humanity as revealed to Muhammad and the necessity of restoring it to its true intent and pristine form, which had been lost through the centuries. Its adherents consider Ahmad to have appeared as the Mahdi—bearing the qualities ...
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Tanta
Tanta ( ' ) is a city in Egypt. Tanta had a population of 658,798 in 2018, making it the fifth most populous city in Egypt. Tanta is located between Cairo and Alexandria: north of Cairo and southeast of Alexandria. The capital of Gharbia Governorate, it is a center for the cotton gin, cotton-ginning industry. Tanta, a key city in Egypt, is both a major commercial hub and a significant cultural center. One of the major railway lines in Egypt passes through Tanta, enhancing its connectivity and importance. The city is best known for the Moulid of Ahmad al-Badawi, a week-long annual festival beginning on 11 October that attracts over a million visitors. This celebration honors Ahmad al-Badawi, a revered 13th-century Sufi figure who founded the Badawiyyah order and is buried in the Ahmad al-Badawi Mosque, the city’s most prominent religious site. Tanta is also famed for its sweet shops and snack industry, particularly for its roasted chickpeas and confections like Hab El-Aziz. ...
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Ibn Duqmaq
Sarim al-Din Ibrahim bin Mahammad bin Aidmar bin Duqmaq al-Ala’i () (1406 – 1349), known as Ibn Duqmaq al-Qahiri al-Hanafi, was a medieval Egyptian historian and biographer from the Mamluk era. Many historians made a mistake when they indicated that Duqmaq was his paternal grandfather, and that the historian is Ibrahim bin Mahammad bin Duqmaq. Ibn Duqmaq wrote about 200 books on history, both authored and copied. He was known for being fair in his writing.Al-Zirkli, Khair al-Din (1980). 'Ibn Duqmaq'' Encyclopedia of notable figures. Rural Knowledge Network Encyclopedia. Archived from thoriginalon January 21, 2020. Accessed on October 21, 2011. Family As for his father, Mahammad bin Aidmar, we do not know the truth about him, as the sources do not provide us with sufficient information about him, except for what we found from Al-Asqalani that his father Mahammad was “''Dawadar''” Badr Al-Din, the son of Al-Qalanisi's cousin, and that he died on the 21 of Shawwal in the ye ...
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Yaqut Al-Hamawi
Yāqūt Shihāb al-Dīn ibn-ʿAbdullāh al-Rūmī al-Ḥamawī (1179–1229) () was a Muslim scholar of Byzantine ancestry active during the late Abbasid period (12th–13th centuries). He is known for his , an influential work on geography containing valuable information pertaining to biography, history and literature as well as geography. Life ''Yāqūt'' (''ruby'' or '' hyacinth'') was the '' kunya'' of Ibn Abdullāh ("son of Abdullāh"). He was born in Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, called in Arabic al-Rūm, whence his '' nisba'' "al-Rūmi". Captured in war and enslaved, Yāqūt became " mawali" to ‘Askar ibn Abī Naṣr al-Ḥamawī, a trader of Baghdad, Iraq, the seat of the Abbasid Caliphate, from whom he received the '' laqab'' "al-Hamawī". As ‘Askar's apprentice, he learned about accounting and commerce, becoming his envoy on trade missions and travelling twice or three times to Kish in the Persian Gulf. In 1194, ‘Askar stopped his salar ...
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