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Chapter 10 - The Destruction of Alexandria: Religious Imagery and Local Identity in Early Islamic Egypt

from Part III - Social and Cultural Connections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2022

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Jelle Bruning
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In a passage charged with symbolism, the third/ninth-century Egyptian historian Ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam (d. 257/871) records a vision of the city of Alexandria that was popular in his time. According to his unnamed source, “Alexandria was built in three-hundred years, was inhabited for three-hundred years and was destroyed (khuribat) in three-hundred years.”1 The definiteness or completeness captured in the symbolic use of the number 3 and its multiples as well as the passage’s clear birth–maturation–death scheme reveals that the story was meant to indicate that Alexandria’s history had come to an end.2 The significance of this somewhat striking vision remains unarticulated. However, its presence in historical, geographical, and religious literature from the East as well as the west of the Islamicate world, from the third/ninth through the early eleventh/sixteenth centuries, shows that it enjoyed widespread and enduring popularity.

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Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World
From Constantinople to Baghdad, 500-1000 CE
 , pp. 325 - 352
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