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PLACE

Cairo

Name

Cairo

Type

city

Part of

Egypt

ismi_id

85226

Places that are part of this place

1 places:
Madrasa Kāmiliyya

Repositories in this place

5 repositories:
Azhar Library
Cairo University
Dār al-kutub
Kahrabai Library (Cairo)
Rauda Khairy Pasha Library

Persons born in this place

4 persons:
Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Būnī
Ibn al-Majdī: Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Rajab ibn Ṭaybughā al-Majdī al-Shāfiʿī
Kamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muṣṭafá al-Māridīnī al-Turkmānī al-Ḥanafī
Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿImād ibn al-Hāʾim al-Faraḍī
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