Cairo
Open the place on the mapIn its old quarter, Fustat, the Rambam lived, practised medicine and wrote most of his works. The storeroom of the Ben Ezra Synagogue held the Cairo Geniza, hundreds of thousands of pages of medieval Jewish life.
What happened here
Cairo Geniza950
Fatimid Caliphate969
al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah (Fatimid)996
Leningrad CodexMar 1008
(Rambam) Moshé ben Maimón1138 – 1204
Mishneh TorahMar 1180
Ayyubid Dynasty1187
Saladin (Ayyubid)1187
Guide for the Perplexed1190
Mamluks1260
Baybars (Mamluks)1260
Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt)1954
Anwar Sadat (Egypt)1970