The name derives from Badr al-Jamali, the powerful Fatimid vizier whose building works shaped this northern quarter of the walled city.
Gamaliya is the classic Cairo of Naguib Mahfouz's novels, its alleys crowded with sabils, mosques and merchant houses. The great gates Bab al-Futuh and Bab al-Nasr stand at its edge.
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