Muslim geographer
Al-Maqdisi
A geographer who observed that Fustat, Old Cairo, had surpassed Baghdad as the greatest glory of the Muslims.
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The Muslim geography-writer al-Maqdisi (d. around 990) remarked that Fustat, old Cairo, had 'superseded' Baghdad and become the greatest glory of the Muslims.