The Islamic City · event 9 of 15

1171

Saladin. Salah al-Din abolishes the Fatimid caliphate, restores Sunni Islam, opens the royal city to the public and merges it with Fustat.

The The Islamic City era

  1. 641
  2. 750
  3. 868
  4. 879
  5. 969
  6. 970
  7. 1087
  8. 1168
  9. 1171
  10. 1176
  11. 1250
  12. 1258
  13. 1348
  14. 1356–1363
  15. 1474

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