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TRAVELS IN 
AFRICA, 
A. D. 945. Ifmail his fon defeated the rebels, and built 
Manfurieh in Africa. 
952. Abu-Tammim fucceeded Ifmail his father. In 968, 
he fent Jeuhar, a Greek, at the head of a ftrong army to 
feize Egypt, and fucceeded. The capital, then ftyled Mifr, or 
Fo/Iat, opened its gates. Jeuhar built a new capital, which he 
named Kahira^ or the Victorious. Abu-Tammim, furnamed 
Moaz, in the twentieth year of his reign embarked for Sar- 
dinia, then fubjedt to Africa, till Jeuhar fliould complete the 
new metropolis. 
972. Abu-Tammim lands at Alexandria, where he is 
met by Jeuhar : advancing to Kahira he was welcomed by 
the acclamations of his new fubjects. To this city he removed 
all his treafures, and even the bodies of his anceftors. 
Jeuhar, the founder, had defired the building to be begun 
under the horofcope or afcendant of the planet Mars, called 
Kahir, or conqueror, by the Arabs ; and hence it was ftyled 
Kahira. 
7'he dynafty of the Fatimites, now tranfplanted to Egypt, 
ruled there till the year 1171, (Hejira 566,) when it was fup- 
planted by Salah-el-din, the famous Saladin of the Chriftian 
authors. 
SECT. 
