Note 154
From The Invasion of Africa, part of Chapter 51 of the Decline & Fall

The foundation of Cairoan is mentioned by Ockley (Hist. of the Saracens, vol. ii. p. 129 ,130); and the situation, mosch, etc., of the city are deseribed by Leo Africanus (fol. 75), Marmol (tom ii. p. 532), and Shaw (p. 115).

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