Al-‘Askar (Arabic: العسكر) was the capital of Egypt from 750–868, when Egypt was a province of the Abbasid Caliphate. After the Muslim conquest of Egypt...

Look up askar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Askar (Arabic عسكر, 'army'), (Somali Caskar, 'Police'), Al askar or Ashkar may refer to: Askar (camp)...

al-Qāhirah (Cairo), founded in 969. Cairo's boundaries grew to eventually encompass the three earlier capitals of al-Fusṭāṭ, al-Qatta'i and al-‘Askar...

Al-Qata'i was located immediately to the northeast of the previous capital, al-Askar, which in turn was adjacent to the settlement of Fustat. All three settlements...

officially known as Al-Asakir al-Masria (Egyptian Arabic: العساكر المصرية, lit. 'Egyptian troops', Coptic: Ⲛⲉⲛⲁⲗⲁⲥⲱϯ ⲛ̀ⲣⲉⲙⲛⲕⲏⲙⲓ) or Al-Askar al-Masri (Egyptian...

they moved the capital from Fustat slightly north to the Abbasid city of al-Askar, which remained the capital until 868. When the Tulunid dynasty took control...

shifted his seat of government to the then-abandoned Ottoman fort of Qal'at al-Askar. In 1972, it was decided that it would be converted into a museum, culminating...

XI: W–Z. Leiden: E. J. Brill. p. 269. ISBN 978-90-04-12756-2. Al-Askar, Abdullah (2002). Al-Yamama in the Early Islamic Era. Reading: Ithaca Press. ISBN 0-86372-400-0...

others think that it is rather a name for the Abbasid province capital al-Askar. Ⲕⲁϩⲓⲣⲏ (Kahi•ree) is a popular modern rendering of an Arabic name (others...

intervention of the atabeg al-askar (commander of the military), Fakhr ad-Din ibn Shaykh al-Shuyukh. As the Crusaders advanced, al-Salih died and was succeeded...