Egypt
- Al-Nasir Nasir-ad-Din Faraj, Sultan of Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt & Syria 1399-1405 and 1405-1411.
- Al-Musta'in Billah, Cairo-based Abbasid caliph (1406–1414) and Mamluk Sultanate (1412). Lost the sultanate in 1412, and the caliphate in 1414.
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“The great pagan world of which Egypt and Greece were the last living terms ... once had a vast and perhaps perfect science of its own, a science in terms of life. In our era this science crumbled into magic and charlatanry. But even wisdom crumbles.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“Hieratic, slim and fair,
the tracery written here,
proclaims what’s left unsaid
in Egypt of her dead.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“Go down, Moses
‘Way down in Egypt land,
Tell ole Pharaoh,
To let my people go.”
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