The mosque was built by the Caliph Umar bin Abdulaziz when he was prince of Madinah and renewed during the Abbassid and Ottoman eras. |
In 2001, he founded the Urmawi Centre for Mashriq Music, named after the Abbassid musician. |
The Abbassid dynasty took over the caliphate in 750 AD, founding Baghdad as its capital and as a centre of knowledge and learning. |
Ahmed Ibn Tuloun had been sent to rule Cairo in the ninth century by the Abbassid Caliph in Baghdad. |