Egypt has
been opened in the reign of Umar ibn al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him,
at the hands of Amr ibn al-Aas in 20 AH / 641 AD.
And started since that date an important stage of the stages of the political history of Egypt's Islamic undertaken which play an important role through the stages of Islamic history, which stretched across several states and empires Islamic include starting state Umayyad dynasty, then the Abbasid state Valakhchidah state Fatimid then international Ayyubid, and Mamluk era and finally the Ottoman Empire, which was Egypt, one of the mandates for nearly three hundred years.
Have seen Egypt during the Muslim rule comprehensive renaissance in architecture and the arts represented in Islamic architecture creates many mosques, castles and forts and walls, as well as decorative arts which were represented in the first Islamic capital in Egypt, a city of Fustat and the Mosque of Amr ibn al-Aas The gauge Nile island of kindergarten oldest impact of Egyptian Islamic and established by the Abbasid Caliph al-Mutawakkil in 245 AH God ·
Prosperity is reflected in Islamic architecture city Alktaea and Ahmad Ibn Tulun Mosque, which was built on the approach to the Mosque of Amr ibn al-Aas with the addition of the fountain and the minaret and struts, decoration and painting Constituent · and minaret of the Mosque of Ibn Tulun is only in mosques in Egypt, which has this format.
Islamic architecture and advanced in the Fatimid and Al-Azhar Mosque is one of the Fatimid architecture months in Egypt, as well as the Anwar Mosque "Hakim" and Whole Aqmar.
And distinguish Ayyubid architecture progresses, the most famous landmarks at the Citadel of Saladin and represent the fortress of Islamic architecture from the Ayyubid until the era of Mohamed Ali.
Mamluks also left a wealth of great artistic represented in mosques, domes and role of Sufism, palaces, castles and schools to public water fountains