Fostat

The two main synagogues of Fostat, the Palestinian (Ben Ezra) and the Iraqi, both had a khadima, the female equivalent of khadim, or beadle.

Genizah. 2009

In medieval Cairo, this custom was extended to anything written in Hebrew, but instead of being buried, such items were stored in a genizah in the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Fostat (Old Cairo), where most of the Jews lived; the arid conditions preserved them.

Genizah. 2009

Rabbi Moses ben Maimon (Rambam) was born in Cordova, Spain in 1138 and died in Fostat (old Cairo), Egypt in 1204.

Maimonides. 2009

Cairo area, Mokhtar el-Hamalawi, said that a camp with 100 tents has been set up at the el-Fostat area for people that have lost their homes.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

“Misr” (Masr), the Capital, says Savary, applied alternately to Memphis, Fostat and Grand Cairo each of which had a

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Bulak is the port suburb on the Nile, till 1858 wholly disjoined from the City; and Fostat is the outlier popularly called Old

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Facing ever-growing demands on his time, Maimonides worked himself into a state of exhaustion and died in Fostat in 1204.

Maimonides Seeskin, Kenneth 2008

Touloun, at Cairo, built in A.H. 263; and that of Ammer, situated between Cairo and Old Cairo, upon the spot where Fostat once stood: it was built by Ammer Ibn el Aas, in the first years of the conquest of Egypt; it has an arched fountain in the midst, where at

Travels in Arabia 2003

El-Fostat, the oldest of these, close to the fortress which he had besieged.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

Fostat (see below, _History_). [v. 04 p. 0955] The road to Old Cairo by the river leads past the monastery of the "Howling" Dervishes, and the head of the aqueduct which formerly supplied the citadel with water.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various