The street and district are named for Imam al-Shafi'i, the 9th-century jurist whose great domed tomb here draws visitors and lends the whole quarter his name.
Al-Shafi'i is one of the four great imams of Sunni jurisprudence and died in Egypt in 820. His mausoleum in the southern cemetery is a masterpiece of Ayyubid architecture.
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