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A 7 page paper which examines the development of two cities presented in Vernon Egger’s work A History of the Muslim World to 1405. The cities examined are Damascus and Cairo. No additional sources cited.
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cultures, nations, cities, and also Christianity and the Crusades. In A History of the Muslim World to 1405 by Vernon Egger the author examines the history, as the title suggest,
of the Muslim world, quite an extensive world. The following paper examines some of the development of two important cities in the work, Damascus and Cairo. Muslim History:
Damascus and Cairo The student requesting this paper asks that two cities visited by ibn Battuta be examined. Ibn Battuta was a world traveler of the time, a Muslim, and
his works are considered incredibly invaluable due to their first hand experiences and observations of places. Ibn Battuta visited many places in Syria and Egypt, two cities of which are
Damascus and Cairo. His travels took place around the second quarter of the 14th century. In looking at some history in Eggers work prior to the time of ibn
Battuta it is noted that, as it pertains to Damascu, "in 1148, the Crusades decided to conquer Damascus...Now, faced with a hostile takeover by Jerusalem, the Damascenes looked to Aleppo
to help them."1 As a city they chose to submit themselves, in order to receive protection from the Franks, to Nur al-Din.2 At this point the holdings of Nur al-Din
and the Christian Jerusalem comprised the major powers within Syria at the time.3 In relationship to Cairo, several years later, the conditions
were similar yet different. For example, the Crusades were still an issue, albeit a smaller one, and there was the constant changing of power. Egger notes that, "In 1260, a
mamluk named Baybars seized power and ruled for seventeen years. He showed that it was possible for the system of military slavery actually to rule the country." (181). The mamluk
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