Al-Moez Ladin Allah Al-Fatimi Street.

• 16 / 5 / 2023

Al-Mu'izz L-din Allah al-Fatimi Street or the Great Street, the Cairo Kasbah, or the Greater Cairo Kasbah is a street that represents the heart of the Old City of Cairo and which was developed to be an open-air museum of Islamic architecture and antiquities. With the emergence of the city of Cairo during the era of the Fatimid state in Egypt, Al-Mu'izz Street arose, so the layout of the city was pierced by a Main Street stretching from Bab Zuweila south to Bab al-Futuh north parallel to the Gulf, and it was called The Great Street and later the Kasbah of Cairo,  With the transformation that Cairo experienced in the early seventh Hijri/thirteenth century AD during the Mamluk era, with the beginning of the Tatar attack on the Levant and Iraq, many of the Levant was displaced to Egypt, so the places passed outside the walls of Cairo, and the emerging neighborhoods surrounded the Fatimid wall of Cairo, and the Great Street was filled with a series of religious, educational, medical, commercial and residential facilities, so that the bulk of the Islamic monuments of Egypt became concentrated within the borders of Mamluk Cairo, and economic activities in this era gathered around the Great Street and its extension outside Bab Zuweila towards the cross and the Citadel, and the Kasbah of Cairo extended beyond its Fatimid walls from the first Husseiniyya northward out of Bab The conquest and even the precious scene to the south are outside Bab Zuweila.

Naming,
Al-Mu'izz street sign for the religion of Allah
The street was originally given several names, namely the Great Street, The Kasbah of Cairo, and the Kasbah of Greater Cairo, and finally, it was named Al-Mu'izz Street by the religion of Allah al-Fatimi in 1937 in honor of the founder of Cairo, and that designation extends from Bab al-Fotouh to Bab Zuweila, including the streets of Bab al-Fotouh, Amir al-joyous, Al-nahassin, Ben Kasserine, as-saja, Ashrafieh, Shawayin, Akkadian, Al-manakhliya, Al-mengidin, Sukariya to Bab zuweila. The current name belongs to the Fatimid caliph Al-Mu'izz of the religion of Allah, Abu Tamim Ma'ad Ibn al-Mansur Ismail ibn al-Qaim in the command of Allah Muhammad ibn al-Mahdi Abdullah Al-Fatimi, whose origin dates back to the island of Sicily while he was born in the city of Mahdia in 319 ah and attributed to Cairo Al-Mu'izzah. He was the first Fatimid caliph to enter Egypt after its conquest in 358 Ah.

History,
The planning of the city of Cairo includes referring to several names such as the line or lane, which included roads, alleys or junctions, peaches, stables, and rehab, which in total formed the general layout of the site. The first Islamic capital in Egypt was Fustat, where the plans were chosen like other Islamic cities, and distributed among the conquering soldiers, and there were also houses of notables gathered around them, of course, loyal to the owners of those houses. Also, the military was the second Islamic capital in Egypt, which was established by the Abbasids, so they established their role, Housing, and barracks of the soldiers, and with the establishment of the city of Tuluniyya, the new emerging city was divided into several sectors inhabited by Obaid Ibn Tulun, Ghulman and Asakreh and made for each sect a cut, then the founding of the city of Cairo came as an extension of the same context, the term،

Al-Muizz Street-Al-Mu'izz ledin Illah Street -. One of the most important historical streets in Egypt and Cairo. When Jawhar Al-saqli built Cairo Al-Mu'azzah, he worked on its northern wall with two doors that are far from each other, namely Bab al-Nasr and Bab al-Fotouh. And in the southern wall, two adjacent doors were opened, which were named Bab zuweila, and a Main Street was opened from Bab al-Futuh to Bab zuweila, and this street was named Al-Mu'izz Street for the religion of Allah.

Al-Mu'izz Street is also known as Al-Azam Street, Al-Qahira Street, and Al-Kasbah Street. The Sicilian essence built on its eastern side a palace for caliph Al-Mu'izz known as the "Great Eastern Palace" and because his son, dear Allah, built in front of him a "small palace known as the little Western Palace". After Saladin destroyed the Fatimid state in Egypt, he, his family and his state order lived in the Grand Palace, and the Palace remained the seat of the Ayyubid rule until the construction of the mountain castle on Mount Mokattam, where King Kamil, Saladin's nephew, lived and shweya shweya the Grand Palace neglected to take care of what it took and adopted neighborhoods, streets, schools and houses in the area. Ma'iz Street is Cairo's Main Street, but its extensions on the one hand of Bab zuweila were a connector for Fustat and on the other hand of Bab al-Fotouh for the AL-husseinieh and Al-Zaher neighborhoods.

Al-Mu'izz Street was full of shops and markets to the extent that the number of shops from Bab al-Futuh to Bab zuweila was about 1200 shops, and the street preferred to retain its place in the Mamluk era and it had necessary traditions to take into account, such as it was forbidden to exceed a loaded camel, a fortress or a covered shed. And there was a law that required shopkeepers to illuminate their shops with jellyfish all night long, and every shopkeeper who visited had two million units dedicated to fighting the fire if it started. There were garbage workers, extras, sweepers and security guards.

Al-Moiz Street is the most famous street in Cairo and Egypt, full of archaeological artifacts from the Middle Ages and the Mamluk era in particular. The street stretches from Bab al-Futuh to Bab Zuweila, and the area includes the streets of Bab al-Futuh, Amir al-Jaish, Al-nahassin, Ben Kasserine, Al-Sagha, Al-Ashrafieh, Al-aqadeen, Al-manakhleh, Al-munajdeen and Al-sakreh.

The monuments mentioned by Al-maqrizi on the street are: al-Hakim Amr Allah mosque, qaytbay agency, Bayt Al-Suhaimi, Suleiman Aga Al-salhdar Mosque, Al-Aqmar mosque, Abdul Rahman Katkhada Avenue, Prince Beshtak Palace, Sultan Qalawun Mosque, Al-Zaher Barqouq school, Saleh Ayyub soil, al-Salhiya School, Al-Kamleh school, Nasser Mohammed bin Qalawun School, Al-Ashraf Barsbay mosque, Sultan Al-Ghouri school and Avenue, hammam the supporter, the Collector-supporter, and others.

During the reign of Minister of Culture Farouk Hosny, a huge effort was made to restore the monuments of the historical street, and its area was developed after it was worn out due to neglect and lack of attention and its shape remained befitting the historical status of Egypt.

Al-Moiz Street is one of the most important areas of Islamic Cairo, which has been included in the UNESCO World Heritage sites since 1979.