Cairo al-Azhar Mosque 970-72 Fatimid Bab al-Muzayinīn (Gate of the Barbers) 1753 Ottoman Abd al-Rahman Katkhuda & Minarets
Al-Azhar: Named after Fatima al-Zahra (the radiant). Fatimah bint Muhammad 615-c.632, daughter of Prophet Muhammad & Khadijah, through whom the Fatimids traced their ancestry.
Patron, mosque: al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah (Abū Tamīm Ma'add al-Mu'izz li-Dīn Allāh, Glorifier of the Religion of God) 931-975, Fatimid Caliph (r.953–975).
Construction Manager: Gawhar al-Siqilli (Gawhar ibn ʿAbd Allāh) early 900s-992, Sicilian general who conquered Egypt in 969 & Fatimid viceroy of Egypt until al-Mu'izz's arrival in 973.
Patron, gate: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Katkhudā ibn Husayn Jawish al-Qardughli c.1715–1776, prominent Ottoman emir & a leading officer of the Cairo Janissaries.
Islamic Monument #97
Cairo al-Azhar Mosque 970-72 Fatimid Bab al-Muzayinīn (Gate of the Barbers) 1753 Ottoman Abd al-Rahman Katkhuda & Minarets
Al-Azhar: Named after Fatima al-Zahra (the radiant). Fatimah bint Muhammad 615-c.632, daughter of Prophet Muhammad & Khadijah, through whom the Fatimids traced their ancestry.
Patron, mosque: al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah (Abū Tamīm Ma'add al-Mu'izz li-Dīn Allāh, Glorifier of the Religion of God) 931-975, Fatimid Caliph (r.953–975).
Construction Manager: Gawhar al-Siqilli (Gawhar ibn ʿAbd Allāh) early 900s-992, Sicilian general who conquered Egypt in 969 & Fatimid viceroy of Egypt until al-Mu'izz's arrival in 973.
Patron, gate: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Katkhudā ibn Husayn Jawish al-Qardughli c.1715–1776, prominent Ottoman emir & a leading officer of the Cairo Janissaries.
Islamic Monument #97