Free Download The History of Cairo: From Pharaohs to 19th Century by Skriuwer.com
English | March 3, 2025 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DZ6Q77HT | 251 pages | EPUB | 25 Mb
Unlock Cairo's Buried Secrets: Where Gods, Sultans, and Napoleon Clashed on the Nile's Stage!Did you know Cairo's first mosque was built with pillars looted from Pharaonic temples?
From Memphis' crumbling sands
to Napoleon's cannons roaring at the Pyramids - this gripping saga reveals how a city of conquests became the pulsing heart of Islam.
You'll discover:Why Fatimid caliphs buried 24,000 gold dinars under Bab Zuweila's gates to bless Al-Qahirah - "The Conqueror."How Salah ad-Din's Citadel was built by Christian prisoners - yet became Islam's shield against Crusaders.The Mamluk slave-general who dined on solid gold plates while plague corpses piled in alleys.Napoleon's secret order to burn Cairo - "Reduce this nest of fanatics to ashes!"🗣 "Egypt is but a heap of ruins... Her people deserve neither pity nor respect."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1798), days after his troops smashed Sphinx's nose.
Reader's Verdict:"I felt the heat of desert winds and heard the call to prayer from Ibn Tulun's spiral minaret! The depth of research stunned me - especially the real stories behind Al-Azhar's shadows. ★★★★★"
- Dr. Khalid Hassan (Islamic History Professor, AUC)
âš” Why Cairo's Past Will Grip Your Soul:
It shreds tourist-brochure myths to expose 3,000 years of raw ambition:How Viking mercenaries guarded Fatimid palaces
- their axes gleaming in Nile sun.Why Mamluk sultans executed rivals at wedding feasts - then displayed heads on Citadel gates.The cursed well beneath Muhammad Ali's mosque - where Ottoman prisoners carved their dying prayers.Napoleon's savants secretly sketching tombs - while Cairenes poisoned French bread with arsenic.Taste the dust of empires: Walk Pharaoh's quarries repurposed for Caliphs, smell spices in Mamluk souks, and hear Muhammad Ali's assassins slithering through 1805's midnight streets.
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