Al-Muizz Li-Din Allah Al-Fatimi Street
Historic corridor lined with mosques, madrasas and mausoleums spanning a thousand years of rule.
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This guide to Al-Muizz Li-Din Allah Al-Fatimi Street in Cairo opens with the caliph al-Hakim riding his donkey out through nearby gates one night in 1021 and never returning. You'll hear about his eccentric quarter-century on the throne, from banned foods to a citywide dog cull, and about the followers who refused to believe he had died. The street itself, laid out around 970 by Cairo's founding general, still carries the minarets and mosques that grew up along it over a thousand years.
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