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Title: The story of Cairo
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Stanley Lane-Poole
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Publisher: J. M. Dent
Contributing Library: Gumberg Library, Duquesne University
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he Story of Cairo Indian trade, then menaced by the Portuguese, hefurnished a fleet in the Red Sea and sent it to India,where with the help of the governor of Diu it defeatedthe interloping senhors under the younger Almeida inan engagement off Chaul in 1508. Finally, but toolate, he led his army into Syria to do battle with theadvancing Ottomans, and fell fighting at the age ofseventy-six on the fatal field of Marg Dabik, nearAleppo, where the desertion of the two wings underKheyr Bek and el-Ghazzaly left the old sultan alonewith his bodyguard to be trampled under the horsesof the troopers he vainly tried to rally (24th August,1516). An engagement near Heliopolis to the northof Cairo completed the rout of the mamluks. TumanBey tried to make a stand against the invaders at theBab-en-Nasr, but Selim took him in the flank, andafter hand to hand fighting in the streets, the Citadelwas stormed, Tuman was crucified at the Gate ofZuweyla, and Egypt became a province of the OttomanEmpire. 254
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CHAPTER VIIIThe City of the Arabian Nights IN the preceding chapter we finished the story ofCairo as the capital of an independent state, anddescribed some of the beautiful buildings with whichthe Mamluk Sultans and nobles adorned the city.But the life of a town does not consist in the doingsof the court, and we should form a very incompletepicture of mediaeval Cairo if we looked no deeper thanthe Sultans and their mosques and colleges and tombs.Though trampled under the hoofs of the dominanttroopers, the city had a vigorous life of its own, alife of prosperous commerce, of social enjoyment, andof literary culture. Cairo society was no longer thelimited palace coterie cooped up within the high wallsof the Fatimid palaces. It spread on all sides savethe east. It had flowed out beyond the northern gates,and formed the new suburb of the Hoseyniya, wheremany mosques and chapels grew up. It had spread tothe west over the space between the old Fatimid walland the Nile, and the river had con

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