{"slug": "fustat", "label": "Fustat", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fustat", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q839456", "qid": "Q839456", "description": "first capital of Islamic Egypt, in Old Cairo", "entries": 8, "years": 8, "span": [641, 1168], "span_label": ["641 CE", "1168 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "egypt-in-the-middle-ages", "label": "Egypt in the Middle Ages", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "egyptians", "label": "Egyptians", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "egypt", "label": "Egypt", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cairo", "label": "Cairo", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "alexandria", "label": "Alexandria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "abbasid-caliphate", "label": "Abbasid Caliphate", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bilad-al-sham", "label": "Bilad al-Sham", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "levant", "label": "Levant", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "nile", "label": "Nile", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "jawhar-general", "label": "Jawhar (general)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "fatimid-caliphate", "label": "Fatimid Caliphate", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "turkic-peoples", "label": "Turkic peoples", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 641, "year_label": "641 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The city of Fustat (later Cairo) is founded in Egypt. It becomes the first capital of Egypt under Muslim rule.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364764166#Africa", "title": "641", "revid": 1364764166, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 767, "year_label": "767 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Bashmurian revolts continues in Egypt. A general revolt of the Delta takes place. The Egyptians joined with Arab settlers against the Abbasid government. Local officials were killed, and the governor Yazīd ibn Ḥātim sent a force against them, but it was defeated and forced to retreat to al-Fusṭāṭ.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350246348#Egypt", "title": "AD 767", "revid": 1350246348, "section": "Events › By place › Egypt"}}, {"year": 905, "year_label": "905 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Ahmad ibn Kayghalagh, an Abbasid military officer, is appointed governor of the provinces of Damascus and Jordan. He is sent to confront a pro-Tulunid rebellion in Egypt under Egyptian general Muhammad ibn Ali al-Khalanji. The latter manages to capture Fustat and proclaims the restoration of the Tulunids, while the local Abbasid commander withdraws to Alexandria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350019271#Arabian_Empire", "title": "905", "revid": 1350019271, "section": "Events › By place › Arabian Empire"}}, {"year": 914, "year_label": "914 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December", "text": "December – The Fatimid army under Hubasa leaves Alexandria, followed by al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah. The Abbasid troops hold Fustat and begin a counter-offensive against the invaders. The Kutama cavalry suffers heavy losses to the Turkish archers.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355643516#Africa", "title": "914", "revid": 1355643516, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 935, "year_label": "935 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Summer – Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid is appointed governor and becomes the ruler of Egypt and parts of Syria (or the Levant). He launches a campaign against his rival Ahmad ibn Kayghalagh by land and sea: the naval forces take Tinnis and ibn Kayghalagh is forced to retreat. Ibn Tughj enters Fustat, making it his capital, and founds the Ikhshidid dynasty, marking Egypt's independence as an autonomous state.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364468168#Africa", "title": "935", "revid": 1364468168, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 969, "year_label": "969 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "February 6", "text": "February 6–July 9 – Fatimid conquest of Egypt: Caliph Al-Mu'izz's army under General Jawhar invades Egypt. Jawhar occupies the lands around the Nile from the Ikhshidids after a siege at Giza and the capitulation of Fustat.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365590679#Africa", "title": "969", "revid": 1365590679, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 1025, "year_label": "1025 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "February 25", "text": "February 25 – (23 Dhu l-Hijja 415 AH) In the Fatimid Caliphate, Badr al-Dawla Nafidh leads a group of Egyptian soldiers and white slave soldiers from Cairo to end a black slave rebellion in the famine-stricken Egyptian capital, Fustat.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367042525#Events", "title": "1025", "revid": 1367042525, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1168, "year_label": "1168 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "December 22", "text": "December 22 – Afraid that the Egyptian capital Fustat (modern-day Old Cairo) will be captured by Crusader forces, its Fatimid vizier, Shawar, orders the city set afire. The capital burns for 54 days.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362165077#Egypt", "title": "1168", "revid": 1362165077, "section": "Events › By place › Egypt"}}]}