User:نزار المكرمي/Al-Jamalia (Cairo)
The aesthetic district has a historical and international reputation because it is considered the Cairo Heritage Complex since its construction. It includes Al-Azhar, the Mosque of the Governor by the command of God, the Mosque of Al-Aqmar and others, and it contains the walls of Cairo, its gates, the Ayyubid and Mamluk schools, Khan Al-Khalili, Al-Sagha, and Al-Nahhasin.
It is said that the name is attributed to Prince "Jamal Al-Din Mahmoud Al-Estadar" from the era of the Mamluks, after he built a school in the neighborhood in 1409 and was one of the greatest schools in Cairo. The area of this ancient neighborhood is approximately 2.5% of the area of present-day Cairo. It is bordered to the east by Jabal Al-Muqattam, on top of which the Citadel was the seat of residence and rule of the Sultans of Egypt, and to the north is Al-Husayniyah and Al-Dhahir neighborhoods, to the west are Bab Al-Sharia and Al-Mousky neighborhoods, and to the south is Al-Darb Al-Ahmar neighborhood.
Al-Jamalia neighborhood includes 18 shia, the most important of which is the Al-Jamaliah shrine, Barquq, Qaitbay, Bandaddar, Mansuriyya and Al-Daraa, including the Al-Hussein Mosque Al-Ahram, Al-Atouf, Qasr Al-Shouq, Al-Khawas, Bab Al-Fotouh, Khan Al-Khalili, Al-Khanrfash, and between the two walls.
The historical aesthetic district is bordered to the east by Al-Moez Street to the Religion of God and an area between the two palaces, to the north and west by the gates of Cairo, Al-Fateh and Al-Nasr, and part of the Fatimid wall, and to the south by Al-Azhar Street. In the Fatimid era, this region was almost one-fifth of Cairo and had the palaces of the Fatimid caliphate and its annexes and after the end The Fatimid state in 1171 at the hands of Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi. The state of the Fatimid palace deteriorated and became inhabited in parts of it by the general public. Prince Jaharks al-Khalili was one of the princes of the Mamluk state during the reign of Sultan al-Zahir Barquq. Khan al-Khalili in 1382 on the ruins of the soil of the Fatimid caliphs in Egypt which was known as "Saffron soil", which was on the southern part of the Fatimid caliphate palace.
In the year 1409, Prince Jamal Al-Din Yusuf dissolved the endowments in the Rahba area of Bab Al-Eid and built a school. After that, the common people lived in the area, and the pistas appeared in it, which branched out with the passage of days, and the Jamalia neighborhood appeared.
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[[Category:History of Egypt]]
[[Category:Districts of Cairo]]
[[Category:Fatimid Caliphate]]
[[Category:Fatimid architecture in Cairo]]